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Empire City : New York through the centuries
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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.
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- Creator
- edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xx, 994 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0231109083, 9780231109086, 0231109091, 9780231109093
- OCLC
- ocm49664573
- "A Giniger book."
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [977]-982) and index.
- 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