2 options
Brooklyn's Renaissance : Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World / by Melissa Meriam Bullard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bullard, Melissa Meriam, 1946- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Cities and towns--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Ethnology--America.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- World history.
- US History.
- Cultural History.
- Urban History.
- American Culture.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Local Subjects:
- US History.
- Cultural History.
- Urban History.
- American Culture.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book shows how modern Brooklyn's proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn's elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association. The associative ethos behind Brooklyn's fine arts flowering built upon commercial networks that joined commerce, culture, and community. This innovative, carefully researched and documented history employs the concept of parallel Renaissances. It shows influences from Renaissance Italy and Liverpool, then connected to New York through regular packet service like the Black Ball Line that ferried people, ideas, and cargo across the Atlantic. Civil War disrupted Brooklyn's Renaissance. The city directed energies towards war relief efforts and the women's Sanitary Fair. The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn's Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898. .
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Parallel Renaissances in the Atlantic World
- Chapter 3: Black Ball Business and Commercial Networks
- Chapter 4: First Steps Towards Brooklyn's Renaissance
- Chapter 5: Symphony of the Arts
- Chapter 6: Sociability, Civil War and a Diverted Renaissance
- Chapter 7: Culture of War Relief
- Chapter 8: Brooklyn's Changing Complexion
- Chapter 9: Impact on the Arts
- Chapter 10: A Fading Renaissance
- Appendix: Brooklyn's Principal Patrons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319501765
- 3319501763
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.