| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 575 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 cm |
| Note |
"Based on "New York : a documentary film" directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ..."--Verso t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 556-560) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : City of desire -- The country and the city, 1609-1825 -- Alexander Hamilton, the New Yorker with a national vision / Carol Berkin -- Order and disorder, 1825-1865 -- "The locomotive of these United States" / Mike Wallace -- Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 -- The secrets of the great city / Daniel Czitrom -- The power and the people, 1898-1919 -- Where the modern world took shape, 1898-1929 / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 -- Harlem renaissance / interview with David Levering Lewis -- Cosmopolitan capital : New York in the 1920s / interview with Robert A.M. Stern -- The city of tomorrow, 1931-1939 -- Robert Moses : the power broker / interview with Robert A. Caro -- The city and the world, 1939-1969 -- The lonely crowd : New York after the war / Marshall Berman -- Trauma, apocalypse, boom, aftermath : New York City in the last twenty-five years / Phillip Lopate -- Epilogue : City of the millennium. |
| Summary |
A companion volume to the PBS television series. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Alan L. McLeod. |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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National Book Committee. |
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History. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works.
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Illustrated works.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Author |
Sanders, James, 1955-
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Ades, Lisa.
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| ISBN |
0679454829 alkaline paper |
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9780679454823 alkaline paper |
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0375709681 |
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9780375709685 |
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