04353oam 2200697 a 450 991082678400332120230828214914.01-280-47017-80-585-36462-1(CKB)111056485294238(MH)007872648-4(SSID)ssj0000164640(PQKBManifestationID)12037098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164640(PQKBWorkID)10143970(PQKB)10206199(MiAaPQ)EBC4964687(MiAaPQ)EBC5746825(MiAaPQ)EBC271562(Au-PeEL)EBL4964687(CaONFJC)MIL47017(OCoLC)1027141710(EXLCZ)9911105648529423819981211d1999 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrGotham a history of New York City to 1898 /Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace[electronic resource]New York Oxford University Press19991 online resource (xxiv, 1383 p. )ill., maps ;History of NYCBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-511634-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [1263]-1305) and indexes.Lenape country and New Amsterdam to 1664 -- British New York (1664-1783) -- Mercantile Town (1783-1843) -- Industrial center and corporate command post (1880-1898) -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Indexes.In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it chronicles. Drawing on the work of hundreds of scholars who have reexamined New York's past, the authors weave together diverse histories - of sex and sewer systems, finance and architecture, immigration and politics, poetry and crime - into a single narrative tapestry that reads like a fast-paced novel. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch, the Indian wars and Peter Stuyvesant's autocratic regime, the English conquest, the rise of slave trading and slave revolts, the invasion and garrisoning of the city during the Revolution. They will watch New York blossom over the nineteenth century into the country's greatest port, leading manufacturing center, preeminent financial hub, corporate headquarters, and incubator of mass cultural innovations from vaudeville and baseball to Coney Island and the department store.But the real heroes and heroines of Gotham are New Yorkers themselves, and the authors provide mini-biographies of hundreds of individuals, ranging from the world famous to the virtually unknown. The interplay among New York's fiercely heterogeneous citizens was often abrasive, and Gotham recounts the way clashes between immigrants and old-timers, rich and poor, blacks and whites flamed into fierce street battles like the Civil War draft riots. But New Yorkers also forged connections and coalitionscreating multi-national picket lines, interracial reform movements, and multi-ethnic political tickets. Their fusions and collisions generated tremendous kinetic energy, cultural inventiveness, and a vision of unity-in-diversity that would become a distinctive contribution to world civilization.History of NYCRegions & Countries - AmericasHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCUnited States Local HistoryHILCCNew York (N.Y.)HistoryNew York (N.Y.)Buildings, structures, etcHistoryHistory.fastRegions & Countries - AmericasHistory & ArchaeologyUnited States Local History974.7/1Burrows Edwin G.1943-2018.963419Wallace Mike(Mike L.)382846Wallace Mike1942-1686279DLCDLCC#PBOOK9910826784003321Gotham4059006UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress