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Overview
New York City epitomizes modernity. Its skyscrapers and neon nightlife, together with its inner-city ghettoes, symbolize all the excitements and tribulations of contemporary urban living. But the city's powerful contemporary presence is also built upon a dramatic history. Settled by Dutch traders, seized at gunpoint by an English fleet, its development into a mega-city reveals a story as astounding as any in American history. Home to generations of migrants, an international center of finance and fashion, New York is a world city both entrepreneurial and self-promoting. Eric Homberger explores the rich contribution New York has made to American history and culture. Birthplace of Herman Melville, Henry James, and Joseph Heller and adopted home of poets, playwrights, artists, and radicals from every continent, the city has been relentless in overturning cultural conventions. From jazz to hip-hop, from art deco to modernism, New York has always been at the forefront of innovation. - City of power and ambition: Wall Street and the heart of US capitalism; the UN and global politics; Ellis Island and the eternal migrant dream. - City of drama, art, and music: Broadway; Tin Pan Alley and the bright lights; museums and art collections; orchestras, opera, and the power of popular culture. - City of writers and visionaries: émigré intellectuals and dissidents; novelists and poets; chroniclers of urban life and voices of the dispossessed.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781566567107 |
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| Publisher: | Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 09/10/2007 |
| Series: | Interlink Cultural Histories |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
ric Homberger is the author of The Historical Atlas of New York City and Historical Atlas of North America, and has written widely on American literature, culture, and politics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface viii
Introduction: A City Changed, 9/11/01
Ground Zero xiii
Mannahatta
Names and Naming 1
Port, Harbor, and Sea 5
Traces of the Past 11
Melville, Cooper, and Roosevelt 19
The Grid 25
Flatiron Building 30
On the Steps of the Federal Hall National Memorial
J.P. Morgan 38
Trinity Church 43
Federal Hall 50
From City Hall to Federal Hall 52
Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange 56
The Immigrant's City
March or Die 63
The Statue of Libetry 68
Ellis Island 74
The Lower East Side 81
Abraham Cahan and Isaac Bashevis Singer: Finding Voices for the Immigrant World 89
Social Settlements 94
The Tenement 97
The Tenement Museum 103
Greenwich Village
Symbols and Yellow Fever 108
Washington Square 110
The New Village, 1912-1917 115
Caroline Ware's Village 121
Village Scenes: Folk Singers, Beats, Hipsters 124
Warhol and the Factory 133
Parks
Urban Space and Romantic Landscapes 137
Woodlawn Cemetery 141
Parks and the City 143
The Battery 145
Private Property and Radicalism 147
Olmsted and Central Park 149
Paying for the City's Parks 155
Broadway
Making Broadway 163
Starting out at Number 1 166
St. Paul's Chapel 169
City Hall 176
City Hall Park 181
Fashionable Ladies, Dandies, Hotels, and Shops 183
Chinatown 192
SoHo 197
Grace Church 201
Union Square 205
Madison Square 208
42nd Street and Times Square 210
Light and Air 213
Harlem
Old Harlem 220
Toward San Juan Hill 223
The Migration North 227
The New Negro 232
Jazz Age 236
Harlem Reborn 240
More than Manhattan
Brooklyn 243
Further Reading 247
Index of People 252
Index of Places and Institutions 256
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