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Taming Manhattan - Catherine McNeur - Bog

- Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674979758
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 320
  • Udgivet:
  • 23. oktober 2017
  • Størrelse:
  • 203x132x24 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 344 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. december 2024

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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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