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Footprints in New York : tracing the lives of four centuries of New Yorkers

Title
Footprints in New York : tracing the lives of four centuries of New Yorkers / James Nevius and Michelle Nevius.
Author
Nevius, James.
Publication
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
Nevius, Michelle.
Description
viii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-304) and index.
Contents
Shadows of shadows: Peter Stuyvesant and the Dutch frontier -- The dissenters -- The DeLanceys and New York's lost century -- Alexander Hamilton: the life and death of a patriot -- DeWitt Clinton and the making of the modern city -- Gertrude Tredwell: at home in Greenwich Village -- "A ghastly poverty": Edgar Allan Poe -- The birth of Central Park -- Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War -- Boss Tweed -- Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Wharton: tales of the Gilded Age -- How the other half lived -- Seth Low: from the Brooklyn Bridge to the big city -- The city of Morgan -- The liberators: Harlem, Greenwich Village, and the American left -- Peace through trade: the Rockefellers and the modern city -- The battle for New York: Jane Jacobs vs. Robert Moses -- "City like a web": Bob Dylan and MacDougal Street -- New York stories: Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.
Call Number
F128.25
ISBN
  • 9780762796366
  • 0762796367
LCCN
2014001590
OCLC
857803708
Author
Nevius, James.
Title
Footprints in New York : tracing the lives of four centuries of New Yorkers / James Nevius and Michelle Nevius.
Publisher
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-304) and index.
Added Author
Nevius, Michelle.
Research Call Number
*R-USLHG F128.25 .N48 2014
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