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New York : an illustrated history
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A companion volume to the PBS television series.
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- Creator
- narrative by Ric Burns and James Sanders ; picture editor Lisa Ades
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, N.Y. : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xv, 575 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 0679454829, 9780679454823, 0375709681, 9780375709685
- OCLC
- ocm41315370
- "Based on "New York : a documentary film" directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ..."--Verso t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 556-560) and index.
- Introduction : City of desire -- The country and the city, 1609-1825 -- Alexander Hamilton, the New Yorker with a national vision / Carol Berkin -- Order and disorder, 1825-1865 -- "The locomotive of these United States" / Mike Wallace -- Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 -- The secrets of the great city / Daniel Czitrom -- The power and the people, 1898-1919 -- Where the modern world took shape, 1898-1929 / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 -- Harlem renaissance / interview with David Levering Lewis -- Cosmopolitan capital : New York in the 1920s / interview with Robert A.M. Stern -- The city of tomorrow, 1931-1939 -- Robert Moses : the power broker / interview with Robert A. Caro -- The city and the world, 1939-1969 -- 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 -- Epilogue : City of the millennium