The Epic of New York City: A Narrative HistoryBasic Books, 21 դեկ, 2004 թ. - 640 էջ In swift, witty chapters that flawlessly capture the pace and character of New York City, acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis presents his masterpiece: a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of America's largest metropolis. Ellis narrates some of the most significant events of the past three hundred years and more—the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's fatal duel, the formation of the League of Nations, the Great Depression—from the perspective of the city that experienced, and influenced, them all. Throughout, he infuses his account with the strange and delightful anecdotes that a less charming tour guide might omit, from the story of the city's first, block-long subway to that of the blizzard of 1888 that turned Macy's into one big slumber party. Playful yet authoritative, comprehensive yet intimate, The Epic of New York City confirms the words of its own epigraph, spoken by Oswald Spengler: "World history is city history," particularly when that city is the Big Apple. |
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Manhattan Is Discovered | 11 |
First Settlers Arrive | 23 |
Peter Stuyvesant Takes Command | 41 |
The English Name It New York | 71 |
The Leisler Rebellion | 86 |
Pirates Infest New York | 100 |
Of Queesting and Fribbles | 115 |
The Peter Zenger Trial | 122 |
Building Brooklyn Bridge | 369 |
Metropolitan Opera House Opens | 377 |
Creation of the Statue of Liberty | 384 |
The Blizzard of 1888 | 393 |
New Yorks First Skyscraper | 405 |
Ellis Island Opens | 416 |
The Reverend Parkhurst Samples Vice | 423 |
Hearst Wages War | 440 |
The City Goes Mad | 129 |
Duel for Empire | 138 |
The Stamp Act Rebellion | 143 |
Revolutionary War | 157 |
The Doctors Riot | 176 |
The Capital of the Nation | 184 |
The HamiltonBurr Duel | 193 |
John Jacob Astor Fools the President | 206 |
Sawing Off Manhattan Island | 215 |
The Gangs of New York | 230 |
Down With Foreigners | 247 |
The Astor Place Riot | 255 |
Slavery and Abolitionism | 266 |
The Police Riot | 276 |
Abraham Lincoln Arrives | 285 |
The Draft Riots | 293 |
Confederates Try to Burn Down New York | 317 |
The Tweed Scandals | 327 |
Thomas Edison Lights the City | 358 |
Creation of Greater New York | 450 |
Opening of the Twentieth Century | 456 |
The General Slocum Disaster | 468 |
Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson | 478 |
The Triangle Fire | 489 |
The League of Nations Opens on Broadway | 497 |
Wall Street Is Bombed | 513 |
The Wall Street Crash | 523 |
The Great Depression | 531 |
The Jimmy Walker Scandals | 540 |
Fiorello LaGuardia Becomes Mayor | 549 |
Nazis Plan to Bomb New York | 557 |
William ODwyer Sweats | 565 |
Robert F Wagners Administration | 579 |
This City Is the Center of the Universe | 593 |
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