History of New York

Name: History of New York
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ISBN: 9780231129350

ISBN-10: 0231129351

ISBN-13: 9780231129350

Edition: 2004

Authors: Franï¿½ois Weil, Jody Gladding, Francois Weil

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New York is not America, Franois Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and energy was once quite low in the political and social hierarchy. Weil takes on the New York of myth and offers a compelling chronicle of how it actually developed into a global city -- what some have called the capital of the twenty-first century. He shows how the uneasy tension between capitalism and multiculturalism has been at the heart of the city's immense physical, social, economic, and cultural transformation -- as well as of American notions of what urban "space" is, for whom it exists, and…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.20" wide x 9.02" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Madeleine Ferriï¿½res is professor of social history at the University of Avignon.Jody Gladding is a published poet and the translator of several works, including French Gastronomy: The History and Geography of a Passion.



List of Illustrations and Maps


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Province 1620-1820



The Ocean



The Commencement of a Town



Queen of the New World 1820-1890



The Venice of the Atlantic



The Empire City



Mannahatta



Metropolitan Modernities 1890-1940



Greater New York



The Promised City?



The Lights of the City



Capital of the American Century 1940-2000



The Phoenix



New York, New York!


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index