The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860
by
Gergely Baics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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....