Title Feeding Gotham : the political economy and geography of food in New York City, 1790-1860 / Gergely Baics

Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 347 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Political economy of urban provisioning. Is access to food a public good? From public market to free-market system, 1790-1860 -- Public market system of provisioning, 1790s-1820s. The landscape of municipal food access ; Constraints of time: public market schedule of provisioning ; Catharine Market and its neighborhood -- Free-market system of provisioning, 1830s-50s. Withdraw the bungling hand of goverment: free-market geography of provisioning ; The price of deregulation: food access and living standards 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."--Dust jacket front flap Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Food supply -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century Food supply -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century Food supply -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Food supply -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Food -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Nutritional anthropology -- New York (State) -- New York Food Supply -- history Urban Population -- history Social Change -- history SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food. HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Food -- Social aspects Food supply Food supply -- Economic aspects Food supply -- Political aspects Historical geography Nutritional anthropology SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Historical geography New York City Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016942620 ISBN 1400883628 9781400883622

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