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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : 8 color illus. 2 halftones. 19 line illus. 14 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691168791
  • 9781400883622
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.197471 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9008.N5 B28 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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