Water for Gotham : : A History / / Gerard T. Koeppel.
Water for Gotham tells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, Gerard Koeppel demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amste...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 50 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- ONE "Give Us Cold Water"
- TWO Manahata Goes Dutch
- THREE English Well-Being
- FOUR Tea Water and the Works That Weren't
- FIVE New City, Old Trouble
- six Aaron's Water
- SEVEN Fools of Gotham
- EIGHT Catching the Croton Bug
- NINE The Work Begins
- TEN Taking the High Road?
- ELEVEN Filling the "Big Teapot"
- EPILOGUE New York's Water from Then to Now
- Notes
- Index