| Description |
640 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 600-618. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
In narrative form, this book attempts to trace the evolution of New York City and reveal its organic relationship to the rest of the United States and all the world. Spans the 400 years of its development from the wooded, hilly island that Giovanni da Verrazano called "a pleasant place" in 1524, to the vast, vital metropolis of today. |
| Contents |
Manhattan is discovered -- First settlers arrive -- Peter Stuyvesant takes command -- The English name it New York -- The Leisler Rebellion -- Pirates infest New York -- Of queesting and fribbles -- The Peter Zenger trial -- The city goes mad -- Duel for empire -- The Stamp Act rebellion -- Revolutionary War -- The Doctors' Riot -- The capital of the nation -- The Hamilton - Burr duel -- John Jacob Astor fools the president -- Sawing off Manhattan Island -- The gangs of New York -- Down with foreigners! -- The Astor Place riot -- Slavery and abolitionism -- The police riot -- Abraham Lincoln arrives -- The draft riots -- Confederates try to burn down New York -- The Tweed scandals -- Thomas Edison lights the city -- Building Brooklyn Bridge -- Metropolitan Opera House opens -- Creation of the Statue of Liberty -- The blizzard of 1888 -- New York's first skyscraper -- Ellis Island opens -- The Reverend Pankhurst samples vice -- Hearst wages war -- Creation of greater New York -- Opening of the twentieth century -- The General Slocum disaster -- Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson -- The triangle fire -- The League of Nations opens on Broadway -- Wall Street is bombed -- The Wall Street crash -- The great depression -- The Jimmy Walker scandals -- Fiorello LaGuardia becomes mayor -- Nazis plan to bomb New York -- William O'Dwyer sweats -- Robert F. Wagner's administration -- "This city is the center of the universe". |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte.
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