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Title

Gotham : a history of New York City to 1898 / Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace.

Author

Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Wallace, Mike, 1942-
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Description

xxiv, 1383 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it chronicles. Drawing on the work of hundreds of scholars who have reexamined New York's past, the authors weave together diverse histories - of sex and sewer systems, finance and architecture, immigration and politics, poetry and crime - into a single narrative tapestry that reads like a fast-paced novel. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch, the Indian wars and Peter Stuyvesant's autocratic regime, the English conquest, the rise of slave trading and slave revolts, the invasion and garrisoning of the city during the Revolution. They will watch New York blossom over the nineteenth century into the country's greatest port, leading manufacturing center, preeminent financial hub, corporate headquarters, and incubator of mass cultural innovations from vaudeville and baseball to Coney Island and the department store. But the real heroes and heroines of Gotham are New Yorkers themselves, and the authors provide mini-biographies of hundreds of individuals, ranging from the world famous to the virtually unknown. The interplay among New York's fiercely heterogeneous citizens was often abrasive, and Gotham recounts the way clashes between immigrants and old-timers, rich and poor, blacks and whites flamed into fierce street battles like the Civil War draft riots. But New Yorkers also forged connections and coalitionscreating multi-national picket lines, interracial reform movements, and multi-ethnic political tickets. Their fusions and collisions generated tremendous kinetic energy, cultural inventiveness, and a vision of unity-in-diversity that would become a distinctive contribution to world civilization.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (copy in NYGB).

Subjects

• History
• New York (N.Y.) > History
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [1263]-1305) and indexes.

Source (note)

• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society;

Awards (note)

• Pulitzer Prize, History, 1999.

Contents

Lenape country and New Amsterdam to 1664 -- British New York (1664-1783) -- Mercantile Town (1783-1843) -- Industrial center and corporate command post (1880-1898) -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Indexes.

Call Number

F128.3

ISBN

• 0195116348
• 9780195116342
• 0195140494
• 9780195140491

LCCN

97039308

OCLC

37903500

Author

Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-

Title

Gotham : a history of New York City to 1898 / Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1263]-1305) and indexes.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize, History, 1999.

Source

Gift; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; 2008. (copy in NYGB N.Y.C. G 10.5)

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Book review (H-Net)

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Wallace, Mike, 1942-

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG F128.3 .B95 1999

*R-SIBL F128.3 .B95

*R-Map Div. Desk F128.3 .B95 1999

Desk-USLHG F128.3 .B95 1999

NYGB N.Y.C. G 10.5