Taming Manhattan by Catherine McNeur, Catherine McNeur

321 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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