Atlantic metropolis : an economic history of New York City
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Atlantic metropolis : an economic history of New York City
(Palgrave studies in American economic history / series editor, Barbara Alexander)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-712) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have made New York one of the twenty-first century's few truly global cities. A recurrent analytic theme of this work is that the ups and downs of New York's trajectory are best understood in the context of what was happening elsewhere in the broader Atlantic world. Readers will find that the Atlantic perspective viewed through an economic lens goes a long way toward clarifying otherwise quite perplexing historical events and trends.
Table of Contents
Part I: Pre-contact to the Treaty of Vienna
1. Beverstad
2. An Island in the Center of its Hinterland
3. Port and Entrepot
Part II: The Displaced Nineteenth Century
4. Catastrophic Agglomeration
5. A Port in Time
6. Manufacturing Employment at Mid-Century
7. Huddled Masses of Rational Optimizers
8. The Attractions of the Slums
9. Money Central
10. Global City, Mark 1
11. Perfectly Matched and Perfectly Timed
Part III: The Short Twentieth Century
12. Global City in a Less Integrated World
13. New York's Great Depression: The Delayed Fade
14. Social Democracy and Suburbanization
15. All that is Solid Melts into Air
16. The Perfect Storm and the Turning Point
Part IV: Resurgence
17. Resurgent Cities
18. America's Global City
19. A City of Niches and Enclaves
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