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Gotham : a history of New York City to 1898
- 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.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-Map Div. Desk F128.3 .B95 1999 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - SASB to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *R-SIBL F128.3 .B95 | SASB - SIBL - General Research - Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG F128.3 .B95 1999 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Desk-USLHG F128.3 .B95 1999 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Desk Room 121 |
Text | Request in advance | NYGB N.Y.C. G 10.5 | Offsite |
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- 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
- 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)
- Connect to:
- 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 1999Desk-USLHG F128.3 .B95 1999NYGB N.Y.C. G 10.5