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“Tells an odd story in lively prose. This book implicitly alludes to the urban revival now stretching from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., but whatever your thoughts on brewpubs and bike lanes, you probably haven’t read a municipal history that has a mayor ‘ready to tackle the hog problem.’ …The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations. McNeur’s town is a ‘veritable manure factory’ in which some 10,000 horses each deposit up to 40 pounds of manure a day, while the East River serves as a repository for human waste… [Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old­-fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.”―Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times“Nearly two centuries before the Occupy Movement, New Yorkers rich and poor clashed over what shape their young city should take. In this superb history, McNeur recovers the bitter battles over feral hogs and untamed dogs, public parks, safe and pure food, effective sanitation, and the fate of the underclass. Making a safer and cleaner city for some, she concludes, also created a shadow city of poverty and filth for others. Taming Manhattan is a thrilling, vivid expedition into Gotham’s wild and often violent past.”―Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City“In the decades before the Civil War, New York was rapidly becoming the largest and most important city in the western hemisphere. But mad dogs and wild pigs roamed its streets; garbage heaps, squatters, and shantytowns were commonplace; parks and public open spaces were practically non-existent; and epidemic disease was a constant threat. Catherine McNeur’s Taming Manhattan tells us how New York was literally cleaned up and transformed from a health hazard to an emerging world city. And she does it with beautiful prose, careful research, and persuasive argument. Altogether an excellent book.”―Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City“[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.”―Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Catherine McNeur is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University.

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Product details

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (October 23, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780674979758

ISBN-13: 978-0674979758

ASIN: 0674979753

Product Dimensions:

5 x 0.9 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.1 out of 5 stars

9 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#169,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This is an interesting tale of Manhattan during the early 1800s. What I found delightful was the prevalence of pigs wandering the streets. Also the battle about parks and tree spaces. This ultimately led to Central Park and no local parks as one may have found in London. The discussion of the political battles are a reminder of the continual battle amongst interests in New York.The book is short and yet presents reasonable detail. It is worth reading for any interested in the City or dealing with any municipality.

This book will give you a few of early to mid 19th century Manhattan with disputes that you may not have heard of – such as some people supporting the free range of hogs in the city – and the amount of horse maneuver and techniques for its removal and use as fertilizer. What the author does is to align the stories with the political issues: the efforts by the well-to-do resisted by those who, say, had a living to make from those hogs that could forage widely in the neighborhoods. Anyone who thinks from the odd movie or TV 1840s and 1850s city living was elegant will be dismayed by the figures the author gives of the amount of manure in the city from the horses tha the carriages and the horse cars and were everywhere. T

Sometimes you are looking for a source of information on a niche subject or a much larger topic and it is not easily found. In my explorations I came across Taming Manhattan and devoured it. The book is packed with information on the sociological evolution of the City. Very well researched, compact and a detailed delight. Very well done.

This book got a very good review on C-Span. The author gave an hour lecture on it and it was very interesting, quite humorous and made me realize that New York had problems of a sort dealing with the environment that equaled those of today. I haven't yet read it but the chapter headings all look interesting. A good book on the history and public health of New York in the mid-19th century but not bookish.

Well written, entertaining. Gives the reader an excellent history of NEW YORK and the forces that made it what it is today.

Reasonable account of the changes during the time period.Gained some insight from reading it.

Great

This is a nicely done study of the ways in which various social classes and interest groups contested control over Manhattan's physical environment in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Focusing on several issues, including the keeping of swine and dogs within the city, the rag-and-bones trade practiced by many of the city's poorest residents, the establishment of private parks, and the creation of Central Park, McNeur shows how campaigns to "clean up" a city that was widely regarded as squalid intersected with the interests and values of different groups of New Yorkers.Periodic (and often brutal) campaigns to rid the city's streets and sidewalks of stray or poorly controlled dogs, for instance, met resistance both from the working class and from elite New Yorkers, since the fondness for pet dogs cut across the lines of social class. Pig-keeping, on the other hand, was largely practiced only by those -- including many recent immigrants -- who were viewed as constituting "the swinish multitude." Attempts by the city government to crack down on the practice were broadly endorsed by the well-to-do, but provoked riots on the part of Manhattanites who depended on the small-scale keeping of livestock for much-needed household income. The creation of Central Park provided needed fresh air, recreation, and open space for all classes, but its construction required the displacement of the New Yorkers who were already settled within its projected boundaries (like the largely African-American community of Seneca Village) as well as the banning from the park of industries (again, practiced largely by the poor) that had been established there because they were regarded as too noisy, smelly, or land-intensive to be carried out further downtown. McNeur avoids taking sides in these quarrels, but she illuminates them and makes it clear that the "taming" of the city was not simply a matter of making necessary environmental improvements but the outcome, as well, of protracted struggles and negotiations carried out between New Yorkers who had different goals and different needs.The author writes well and her documentation is careful and thorough.

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