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Taming Manhattan : environmental battles in the antebellum city Catherine McNeur
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UNY HN 80 .N5 M36 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeur, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Urbanization.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Environmental conditions.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- City planning--Environmental aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- City planning.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1775-1865.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Mad dogs and loose hogs
- Unequally green
- The dung heap of the universe
- Hog wash and swill milk
- Clearing the lungs of the city
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674725096 (alk. paper)
- 0674725093 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 871228508
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