A history of New York
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A history of New York
（Columbia history of urban life）
Columbia University Press, c2004
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Histoire de New York
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Histoire de New York
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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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