Taming Manhattan - Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

Informationen zum Autor Catherine McNeur is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University. Klappentext 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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• Authors: Catherine Mcneur, McNeur Catherine
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780674979758
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97975-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Urban & municipal planning, Social issues & processes, Population & demography, Urban communities, History and Archaeology, American Civil War