Feeding Gotham : The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860 /

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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 inhabitan...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baics, Gergely (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Food supply > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Food supply > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Food supply > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Food supply > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
American city.
American living standards.
Catharine Market.
New York City.
built environment.
deregulation.
digital mapping.
food access.
food buying.
food economy.
food provision.
food provisioning.
food shopping.
food supply.
free market.
free-market system.
household provisioning.
inequality.
living standards.
market deregulation.
market forces.
marketing.
municipal market system.
neighborhood marketplace.
political economy.
public market system.
public market.
public markets.
retail food economy.
social inequality.
temporal geography.
urban development.
urban governance.
urban living.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Political Economy of Urban Provisioning
  • 1. Is Access to Food a Public Good? From Public Market to Free- Market System, 1790-1860
  • Part II. Public Market System of Provisioning, 1790s-1820s
  • 2. The Landscape of Municipal Food Access
  • 3. Constraints of Time: Public Market Schedule of Provisioning
  • 4. Catharine Market and Its Neighborhood
  • Part III. Free-Market System of Provisioning, 1830s-50s
  • 5. Withdraw the Bungling Hand of Government: Free-Market Geography of Provisioning
  • 6. The Price of Deregulation: Food Access and Living Standards
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Appendix A: Maps
  • Appendix B: Public Market Data
  • Notes
  • Index

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