Water for Gotham : A History /

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Water for Gotham tells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, Gerard Koeppel demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amste...

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Autor principal: Koeppel, Gerard T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Above Par.
Abutment.
Alley.
Appraiser.
Atlantic Ocean.
Banana.
Biogeography.
Biography.
Biologist.
Bourgeoisie.
Brine pool.
Business class.
Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Cast iron pipe.
Catskill Mountains.
Chairman.
Charles Darwin.
Chief engineer.
Cholera.
Christopher Colles.
Coenties Slip.
Coffeehouse.
Commissioner.
Constitutionality.
Croton Aqueduct.
Croton River.
Culvert.
Customer.
Deep sea.
Designer.
Drinking water.
Dutch West India Company.
East Pacific Rise.
Edmund Andros.
Elizabeth Gaskell.
Engineering.
Erie Canal.
Everyman's Library.
Evolution.
Fauna.
Fresh water.
Gastropoda.
Groundwater.
Guaymas.
Harlem River.
Household.
Hudson River.
Hydrocarbon.
Hydrothermal vent.
Indication (medicine).
Industrialisation.
John Barker Church.
Labor unrest.
Laborer.
Latin America.
Lava.
Legislature.
Logging.
Lydia Maria Child.
Maritime nation.
Martin Van Buren.
Masonry.
Michael Joseph (publisher).
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Misconduct.
Mussel.
New York Harbor.
Nuisance.
Oil spill.
Park Theatre (London).
Parliamentary sovereignty.
Passenger pigeon.
Patrick Carr.
Per capita.
Percentage.
Peter Stuyvesant.
Philip Hone.
Politics.
Polychaete.
Residence.
Rift valley.
Samuel Osgood.
Saw Mill River.
Seawater.
Sediment.
Sparkling wine.
Steam engine.
Steam locomotive.
Steamship.
Sulfide.
Tariff.
Tax.
Teapot.
The Bronx.
The Manhattan Company.
United States Senate.
Vegetable.
Water supply.
Whigs (British political party).
William L. Clements Library.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • ONE "Give Us Cold Water"
  • TWO Manahata Goes Dutch
  • THREE English Well-Being
  • FOUR Tea Water and the Works That Weren't
  • FIVE New City, Old Trouble
  • six Aaron's Water
  • SEVEN Fools of Gotham
  • EIGHT Catching the Croton Bug
  • NINE The Work Begins
  • TEN Taking the High Road?
  • ELEVEN Filling the "Big Teapot"
  • EPILOGUE New York's Water from Then to Now
  • Notes
  • Index

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