Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'cholera'

The New York Hog Drive of 1849

November 8th, 2022 · Comments Off on The New York Hog Drive of 1849

One of the animating principles of Microkhan is the steadfast belief that the recent past was more chaotic—and thus immeasurably more interesting—than most of us realize. Take, for example, the prevalence of hogs on the streets of New York City in the mid-19th century, the subject of this paper by a pair of Spanish professors. […]

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