Feeding Gotham
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16879-1 (ISBN)
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.
Gergely Baics is assistant professor of history and urban studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.
List of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I Political Economy of Urban Provisioning 1. Is Access to Food a Public Good? From Public Market to Free-Market System, 1790-1860 19 Part II Public Market System of Provisioning, 1790s-1820s 2. The Landscape of Municipal Food Access 57 3. Constraints of Time: Public Market Schedule of Provisioning 94 4. Catharine Market and Its Neighborhood 121 Part III Free-Market System of Provisioning, 1830s-50s 5. Withdraw the Bungling Hand of Government: Free-Market Geography of Provisioning 155 6. The Price of Deregulation: Food Access and Living Standards 193 Conclusion 231 Abbreviations 237 Appendix A: Maps 239 Appendix B: Public Market Data 251 Notes 259 Index 331
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 14 Maps |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 794 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-16879-2 / 0691168792 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-16879-1 / 9780691168791 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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