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The island at the centre of the world : the untold story of Dutch Manhattan and the founding of New York
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- Creator
- Russell Shorto
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Doubleday, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 038560324X, 9780385603249
- OCLC
- ocm56595606
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-421) and index.
- Prologue: The Missing Floor -- Pt. I. "A Certain Island Named Manathans" -- 1. The Measure of Things -- 2. The Pollinator -- 3. The Island -- 4. The King, the Surgeon, the Turk, and the Whore -- Pt. II. Clash of Wills -- 5. The Lawman -- 6. The Council of Blood -- 7. The Cause -- 8. The One-Legged Man -- 9. The General and the Princess -- 10. The People's Champion -- 11. An American in Europe -- 12. A Dangerous Man -- Pt. III. The Inheritance -- 13. Booming -- 14. New York -- 15. Inherited Features -- Epilogue: The Paper Trail
Subjects
- Minuit, Peter, 1580-1638.
- Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672.
- Donck, Adriaen van der, 1620-1655.
- Dutch Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 17th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 17th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 1898.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.