New York : an illustrated history / narrative by Ric Burns and James Sanders ; picture editor, Lisa Ades.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Ric, author.

Sanders, James, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Ades, Lisa, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--History.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

History.

New York (N.Y.)--History--Pictorial works.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

History.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xvii, 829 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 x 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Summary:

"The companion volume to the PBS television series, with more than 500 full-color and black-and-white illustrations This lavish and handsomely produced book captures all the beauty, complexity, and power of New York -- the city that seems the very embodiment of ambition, aspiration, romance, desire; the city that has epitomized the entire parade of modern life, with all its possibilities and problems. Chronicling the story of New York from its establishment as a Dutch trading post in 1624 to its global preeminence today, the book is at once the biography of a great city and a vivid exploration of the myriad forces -- commercial, cultural, demographic -- that converged in New York to usher in the contemporary world. Weaving the strands of the city's sweeping history into a single compelling narrative, New York carries us through nearly four centuries of turbulent growth and change -- from the first settlement on the tip of "Manna-hata" Island to the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War; to the city's stunning emergence in the nineteenth century as the nation's premier industrial metropolis; to the waves of early-twentieth-century immigration that forever transformed the city and the nation; to New York's transfiguration as the world's first modern city -- pioneering skyscrapers, apartment houses, subways, and highways -- and its role as the birthplace of so much of American popular culture. Along the way, we witness the building of the city's celebrated landmarks and neighborhoods, from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building and the United Nations; from Wall Street and Times Square to the Lower East Side, Harlem, and SoHo. The book brims with vibrant illustrations, including hundreds of rare photographs, paintings, lithographs, prints, and period maps. The narrative incorporates the voices and stories of men and women -- statesmen, entrepreneurs, artists, and visionaries -- who have lived in and built the city: an extraordinary cast of characters that includes Peter Stuyvesant, Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, Walt Whitman, Boss Tweed, Jacob Riis, Emma Lazarus, J. P. Morgan, Al Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, and Jane Jacobs. Accompanying the book's narrative are interviews with Robert A. Caro, David Levering Lewis, and Robert A. M. Stern, and essays by a group of distinguished New York historians and critics, including Kenneth T. Jackson, Mike Wallace, Marshall Berman, Phillip Lopate, Carol Berkin, and Daniel Czitrom, who add their insights about the city to this splendid history. Now with a new preface to the introduction and two new chapters that address the transformation in the twenty-first century, from 9/11 through the Covid-19 pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Country and the City. 1609

1825

Alexander Hamilton, the New Yorker with a National Vision / Carol Berkin

2. Order and Disorder. 1825

1865

"The Locomotive of These United States" / Mike Wallace

3. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW, 1865

1898

The Secrets of the Great City / Daniel Czitrom

4. The Power and the People, 1898

1919

Where the Modern World Took Shape, 1898

1929 / Kenneth T. Jackson

5. COSMOPOLIS, 1919

1931

Harlem Renaissance / David Levering Lewis

Cosmopolitan Capital: New York in the 1920s / Robert A. M. Stern

6. The City of Tomorrow, 1931

1939

Robert Moses: The Power Broker / Robert A. Caro

7. The City and the World, 1939

2000

The Lonely Crowd: New York After the War / Marshall Berman

Trauma, Apocalypse, Boom, Aftermath: New York City in the Last Twenty-five Years / Phillip Lopate

8. The Center of the World, 1946

2002

9. City for a New Century, 2002

2012

The City of the Second Chance / Suketu Mehta

The Century of Cities / Ester R. Fuchs

10. THE FUTURE OF CITIES, 2013

2021.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780593534144

059353414X

OCLC:

1248602506