Mike Wallace (Distinguished Pro Distinguished Professor of History

Greater Gotham

A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York

Produktdetails

• The History of NYC Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 1196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 182mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 2240g
• ISBN-13: 9780195116359
• ISBN-10: 0195116356
• Artikelnr.: 47867221

Autorenporträt

Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is the co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE: CONSOLIDATIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS
1. Mergers
2. Acquisitions
3. Consolidation
4. Wall Street
5. Critics and Crisis
6. Who Rules New York?
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTION
7. Sky Boom
8. Arteries
9. Ligaments
10. Housing
11. Industrial and Commercial City
PART THREE: CULTURES
12. Acropoli
13. Show Biz
14. Popular Cultures
15. Seeing New York
PART FOUR: CONFRONTATIONS
16. Progressives
17. Repressives
18. Union Town
19. Radicals
20. Bending Gender
21. Black Metropolis
22. Insurgent Art
PART FIVE: WARS
23. Over There?
24. Over Here
Acknowledgments
References
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects