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Book Feeding Gotham

    Feeding Gotham

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  • Author : Gergely Baics
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2016-08-30
  • ISBN : 1400883628
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Feeding Gotham written by Gergely Baics and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades. Feeding Gotham looks at how America's first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitants. It tells the story of how access to food, once a public good, became a private matter left to free and unregulated markets—and of the profound consequences this had for American living standards and urban development. Taking readers from the early republic to the Civil War, Gergely Baics explores the changing dynamics of urban governance, market forces, and the built environment that defined New Yorkers’ experiences of supplying their households. He paints a vibrant portrait of the public debates that propelled New York from a tightly regulated public market to a free-market system of provisioning, and shows how deregulation had its social costs and benefits. Baics uses cutting-edge GIS mapping techniques to reconstruct New York’s changing food landscapes over half a century, following residents into neighborhood public markets, meat shops, and groceries across the city’s expanding territory. He lays bare how unequal access to adequate and healthy food supplies led to an increasingly differentiated urban environment. A masterful blend of economic, social, and geographic history, Feeding Gotham traces how this highly fragmented geography of food access became a defining and enduring feature of the American city.

Book Longworth s American Almanac New York Register and City Directory

Download or read book Longworth s American Almanac New York Register and City Directory written by David Longworth and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Subject index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Subject index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ira Aldridge

Download or read book Ira Aldridge written by Bernth Lindfors and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first widely available biography of this important black Victorian-age actor, Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 details the early life and career of this New York-born thespian as he began to act on the British stage. Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 chronicles the rise of one of the modern world's first black classical actors, as he ascended from an impoverished childhood in New York City to a career as a celebrated thespian onthe British stage. After a successful debut in London in 1825, Aldridge began touring the British provinces, billing himself grandiloquently as the "African Roscius," and attracting crowds with his powerful presence and style. He received accolades not only as a tragedian in classic roles such as Othello and Oroonoko but also as a comic actor in popular farces and musicals. In 1833, when a bill to abolish slavery was being debated in Parliament, he was called back to London to perform at one of the city's most prestigious theaters, where his appearance, now under his own name but also billed as "a native of Senegal," created a great deal of controversy. In dealing with Aldridge's emergence as a professional actor in the United Kingdom, Lindfors here records in detail the ups and downs of his itinerant existence in a world where no theatergoer had ever seen anyone like him on stage before. Aldridgewas genuinely a unique phenomenon in Britain at a pivotal point in history. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (University of Rochester Press, 2007).

Book The American Bibliopolist

Download or read book The American Bibliopolist written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Longworth s American Almanac New York Register and City Directory for the Thirty first Year of American Independence

Download or read book Longworth s American Almanac New York Register and City Directory for the Thirty first Year of American Independence written by David Longworth and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Longworth s American Almanac New York Register and City Directory for the Thirty first Year of American Independence

Download or read book Longworth s American Almanac New York Register and City Directory for the Thirty first Year of American Independence written by David Longworth and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: