Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur

Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

Catherine McNeur

320 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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