Taming Manhattan : environmental battles in the antebellum city / Catherine McNeur.

ISBN:

9780674735989

Title:

Author:

McNeur, Catherine, author.

Personal Author:

McNeur, Catherine, author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Mad dogs and loose hogs -- Unequally green -- The dung heap of the universe -- Hog wash and swill milk -- Clearing the lungs of the city.

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Subject Term:

Urbanization -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

City planning -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Harvard University Press,

2014.

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George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library
James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today's sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York's wild side.

"[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography."
--Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement

"Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[ Taming Manhattan ] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past."
--Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times

Author Notes

McNeur Catherine :

Catherine McNeur is Assistant Professor of History at Portland State University.

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