Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

From 1815 to 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland to accommodate Manhattanâ€™s exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers developed new ideas about what an urban environment should containâ€”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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