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The historical atlas of New York City : a visual celebration of 400 years of New York City's history / Eric Homberger ; Alice Hudson, cartographic consultant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Homberger, Eric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Historical geography.
- New York (N.Y.)--Historical geography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Historical geography--Maps.
- New York (N.Y.)--History.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Pictorial works.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- History.
- Maps.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised and updated] third edition, First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2016.
- Summary:
- A full-color visual guide through four hundred years of New York's rich past. Homberger highlights the city's most pivotal moments, New York's most revealing stories, and the historical development of iconic thoroughfares and buildings, and looks at the evolving population and cultural life of the city and its influence on American culture.
- Contents:
- Hilly Island
- Dutch New Amsterdam, 1610-1664
- British New York, 1664-1783
- Rebuilding the city, 1783-1825
- The age of "Go ahead", 1825-1860
- "New York witl be alive...", 1860-1898
- Great New York, 1898-1945
- Cultural capital, 1945-2016
- Chronology
- New York, 2005-2016
- In memoriam.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781250098061
- 1250098068
- OCLC:
- 925498026
- Publisher Number:
- 99976759597
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