A history of New York
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Bibliographic Information
A history of New York
(Columbia history of urban life)
Columbia University Press, c2004
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Histoire de New York
- Uniform Title
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Histoire de New York
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  Aomori
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book was originally published in French in 2000."--p. xviii
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New York is not America, Francois 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 how it is used. The book also captures what makes the city exceptional-from the arts and literature to popular culture and party politics-and reveals New York as both a unique space and a model of American diversity.
Table of Contents
Foreword I The Province 1620-1820 1. The Ocean 2. The Commencement of a Town II Queen of the New World 1820-1890 3. The Venice of the Atlantic 4. The Empire City 5. Manhattan III Metropolitan Modernities 1890-1940 6. Greater New York 7. The Promised City? 8. The Lights of the City IV Capital of the American Century 1940-2000 9. The Phoenix 10. New York, New York!
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