Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 9780195116342

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 9780195140491, 9780195116342, 0195116348, 0195140494

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oa

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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 [First Printiing ed.] 0195116348, 9780195116342

The first volume in a monumental, swiftly moving, illustrated history of New York City--the product of twenty years'

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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 0195116348, 0195140494, 9780199729104

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oa

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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 0195116356, 9780195116359

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-

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New York City Politics: Governing Gotham 9780813586694

Most experts consider economic development to be the dominant factor influencing urban politics. They point to the impor

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City 9780300164091

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her q

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A History Lover's Guide to New York City 9781467119030

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Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 9780814738825

Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first

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A History of Housing in New York City 9780231543101

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the mo

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Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime 9780814737965

Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and mani

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