The Restless City Reader

A New York City Sourcebook
Herausgeber: Reitano, Joanne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Peter Stuyvesant to Mayor Bloomberg, New York Citya (TM)s history is full of vibrant characters, riveting events, and fascinating controversies that reflect shifting economic, political, social, and cultural currents within New Yorka (TM)s long history. The Restless City Reader: A New York City Sourcebook uses primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives to illuminate the issues that have affected the city and its people. The Restless City Reader can be used alone or with The Restless City, a short narrative history of New York from colonial times to the present. With a helpful introduction and document head notes, as well as study questions and suggestions for further inquiry, The Restless City Reader is a short, engaging, usable collection of sources for students, professors, and anyone interested in the city--its dreams, its challenges, its voices.

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First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780415802277
• ISBN-10: 041580227X
• Artikelnr.: 28955208

Autorenporträt

Joanne Reitano earned a BA from Vassar College and a PhD from New York University. She is Professor of History Emerita at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Her other book-length publications include Work and Society: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age: The Great Debate of 1888, The Restless City: A Short History of New York From Colonial Times to the Present, and New York State: People, Places, and Priorities. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Restless City 2. 1609
1799 3. 1800
1840 4. 1840
1865 5. 1865
1900 6. 1900
1920 7. 1920
1945 8. 1945
1970 9. 1970
1993 10. 1993
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