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Empire City : New York through the centuries / edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UNY F 128 .E47 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Sources.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
- New York (N.Y.)--Literary collections.
- American literature--New York (State)--New York.
- American literature.
- New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel--Sources.
- Travel.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Anthologie.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Quelle.
- Literature.
- History.
- Literary collections.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 994 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
- Summary:
- This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.
- Contents:
- Colonial Period (1624-1783)
- Account of Henry Hudson's Voyage in 1609, (1611) / Emanuel van Meteren
- New Amsterdam, Frontier Trading Post, from Historisch Verhael, (1626) / Nicolaes van Wassenaer
- Letter of the Eight Men to the States-General of the United Netherlands Provinces Regarding the Fear in New Amsterdam of the Indians During the Wars of 1643-1645 (1643)
- The Representation of New Netherland, 1650 / Adriaen van der Donck
- Exclusion of Jews from Military Service in New Amsterdam, (1655) / The Burgher Council
- Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing (1657)
- Description of the Towne of Mannadens, (1661)
- Mercantilist Ideas, from England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, (1664) / Thomas Mun
- Prosperity in New York, from A Brief Description of New York, (1670) / Daniel Denton
- True Copy of Articles Whereupon ... The New Netherlands Were Surrendered (January 1674)
- The Demand for English Liberties in New York: The Charter of Liberties and Privileges (October 30, 1683)
- Leisler's Rebellion: Benjamin Blagge's Memorial, from The Documentary History of the State of New-York, (1689) / Benjamin Blagge
- Contract of an Indentured Apprentice (October 2, 1718)
- From the New York Weekly Journal (March 11, 1733)
- Andrew Hamilton's Defense, from A Brief Narrative of Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger (1736)
- The Great Negro Plot of 1741, from The New York Conspiracy, (1741) / Daniel Horsmanden
- The Trial of John Ury, from The New York Conspiracy, (1741) / Daniel Horsmanden.
- Notes:
- "A Giniger book."
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [977]-982) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231109083
- 9780231109086
- 0231109091
- 9780231109093
- OCLC:
- 49664573
- Publisher Number:
- 9780231109093
- Online:
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