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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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320 pages

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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
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