New York 400 / John Thorn Editor ; Melanie Bower Picture Editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thorn, John, 1947- editor.

Bower, Melanie, editor.

Bloomberg, Michael, writer of introduction.

Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012, writer of preface, contributor.

De La Hoz, Cindy, editor.

Museum of the City of New York

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

New York (N.Y.).

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

New York (State)--New York.

Local Subjects:

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

Genre:

illustrated books.

Illustrated works

History

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

469, [11] pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 x 32 cm

Distribution:

London : Running Press,

Other Title:

New York Four Hundred

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction / Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg

Preface / Mike Wallace

"New York, New York" / John Thorn

Chapter I 1609-1664. The Elusive Shifting Sand / Jaap Jacobs

Chapter II 1665-1763. Open City: New York as a Port Town in the Mid-Eighteenth Century / Sara Stidstone Gronim

Chapter III 1764-1783. The Gibraltar of America / Edwin G. Burrows

Chapter IV 1784-1811. "The Man about Town": Men and Style in Aaron Burr's New York / Nancy Isenberg

Chapter V 1812-1841. New York: The Capital City of Sex / Patricia Cline Cohen

Chapter VI 1842-1860. Sugar, Slaves, and the Rise of Cuban New York / Lisandro Pérez

Chapter VII 1861-1875. Street Fight: The Draft Riots of 1863 / Owen D. Gutfreund

Chapter VIII 1876-1898. Mysteries of the City: Rethinking Corruption and Crime in Gilded-Age NYC / Daniel Czitrom

Chapter IX 1899-1929. Biting the Apple: New York Nightlife in the Roaring Twenties / Lew Erenberg

Chapter X 1930-1940. The New Deal and New York City's Homeless / Ella Howard

Chapter XI 1941-1945. Gotham Girds for War: The Right to Fight / Mike Wallace

Chapter XII 1946-1959. Postwar New York: A Socio-Cultural Sketch / Phillip Lopate

Chapter XIII 1960-1969. The Civil Rights Movement in New York City / Clarence Taylor

Chapter XIV 1970-1979. Seeing It Through: New York in the 1970s / Joshua B. Freeman

Chapter XV 1980-1989. Goodbye to All That / Jed Perl

Chapter XVI 1990-2009. Immigrants Reshape the City / David Dyssegaard Kallick

Afterword / Susan Henshaw Jones Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York.

Notes:

"A Visual History of America's Greatest City with Images from The Museum of the City of New York"--Jacket.

"© 2009 Museum of the City of New York"--Title page verso.

"Designed by Joshua McDonnell. Edited by Cindy De La Hoz. Typography: Monkton & Mercury"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy has dustjacket retained.

Running Press copy is "1" printing.

ISBN:

9780762436491

0762436492

OCLC:

316825578