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Manhattan for Rent, 1785–1850

Elizabeth Blackmar author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:7th Nov '91

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In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers.—American Studies International

  • Winner of Winner of the 1990 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize (V.

ISBN: 9780801499739

Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm

Weight: 907g

368 pages