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Author : Susan Whitehurst
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823961740
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Colony of New York written by Susan Whitehurst and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 Copy
Author : Jeremy Thornton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0823962784
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Early New York written by Jeremy Thornton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the first inhabitants of New York and gives a brief introduction to the circumstances that led to the Revolutionary War.
Author : John W. Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the City of New York, 1609-1909 written by John W. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Steven Grumet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806141633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book First Manhattans written by Robert Steven Grumet and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles Manhattan Island's first residents, the Munsee Indians, from their first interactions with European settlers in 1524 to the group's relocation to reservations in the Midwest and Canada during the eighteenth century.
Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400096332
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Island at the Center of the World written by Russell Shorto and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
Author : Elizabeth C. Cromley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801486135
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alone Together written by Elizabeth C. Cromley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the apartment building developed in the late nineteenth century and gradually achieved acceptance as middle-class housing in New York City.
Author : Eric W. Sanderson
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613125739
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mannahatta written by Eric W. Sanderson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown. Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal, New York Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it’s difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing in words and images the wild island that millions now call home. By geographically matching an eighteenth-century map with one of the modern city, examining volumes of historic documents, and collecting and analyzing scientific data, Sanderson re-creates topography, flora, and fauna from a time when actual wolves prowled far beyond Wall Street and the degree of biological diversity rivaled that of our most famous national parks. His lively text guides you through this abundant landscape—while breathtaking illustrations transport you back in time. Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work that provides not only a window into the past, but also inspiration for the future. “[A] wise and beautiful book, sure to enthrall anyone interested in NYC history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A cartographical detective tale . . . The fact-intense charts, maps and tables offered in abundance here are fascinating.” —The New York Times “[An] exuberantly written and beautifully illustrated exploration of pre-European Gotham.” —San Francisco Chronicle “You don’t have to be a New Yorker to be enthralled.” —Library Journal
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199729107
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gotham written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.
Author : Thomas Allston Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 written by Thomas Allston Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Louise Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the City of New York written by Mary Louise Booth and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
