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Taming Manhattan

Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

Catherine McNeur

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Publication Date: 10/23/2017

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Introduction
1. Mad Dogs and Loose Hogs
2. Unequally Green
3. The Dung Heap of the Universe
4. Hog Wash and Swill Milk
5. Clearing the Lungs of the City
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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At the Atlantic blog CityLab, read about Catherine McNeur’s research into the origins of Central Park—as a “social salve” designed to ease tensions between the upper crust and recent immigrants
In the New York Post, read about The Great Piggery War, one of the first instances of gentrification-related strife in midtown Manhattan
At Quartz, read more about how New York City’s loose hogs fed the masses even while sullying the streets
Watch McNeur “talk trash with New Yorkers” on C-SPAN’s American History TV
Via McNeur’s Reddit “Ask Me Anything” feature, learn more about water quality, pig stink, and housing shortages in New York’s history
On the edible Portland podcast, listen to McNeur discuss urban pigs and dairy cattle, and the problems that come with housing large livestock in confined areas

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2015 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History

2015 VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America

2014 Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library

2014 James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

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