Feeding Gotham : : The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860 / / Gergely Baics.
New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades. Feeding Gotham looks at how America's first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 8 color illus. 2 halftones. 19 line illus. 14 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Political Economy of Urban Provisioning
- 1. Is Access to Food a Public Good? From Public Market to Free- Market System, 1790-1860
- Part II. Public Market System of Provisioning, 1790s-1820s
- 2. The Landscape of Municipal Food Access
- 3. Constraints of Time: Public Market Schedule of Provisioning
- 4. Catharine Market and Its Neighborhood
- Part III. Free-Market System of Provisioning, 1830s-50s
- 5. Withdraw the Bungling Hand of Government: Free-Market Geography of Provisioning
- 6. The Price of Deregulation: Food Access and Living Standards
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Appendix A: Maps
- Appendix B: Public Market Data
- Notes
- Index