Taming Manhattan

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Catherine McNeur ISBN: 9780674745148
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: November 3, 2014
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Catherine McNeur
ISBN: 9780674745148
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: November 3, 2014
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

From 1815 to 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland to accommodate Manhattan’s exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers developed new ideas about what an urban environment should contain—ideas that poorer immigrants resisted. As Catherine McNeur shows, taming Manhattan came at the cost of amplifying environmental and economic disparities.

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From 1815 to 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland to accommodate Manhattan’s exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers developed new ideas about what an urban environment should contain—ideas that poorer immigrants resisted. As Catherine McNeur shows, taming Manhattan came at the cost of amplifying environmental and economic disparities.

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