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978-0-19-511634-2. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a non-fiction book by historians Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. Based on over twenty years of research, it was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History, and detailed the history of the city before the consolidation of the five ...
- Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
- 1998
Nov 19, 1998 · In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation.
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Nov 19, 1998 · Books. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the ...
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919. Mike Wallace. History. $32.99$18.14. Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. Tyler Anbinder. History. 4.0star. $25.99.
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Buy Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of NYC Series) Revised ed. by Wallace, Mike, Burrows, Edwin G. (ISBN: 9780195140491) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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- Mike Wallace, Edwin G. Burrows
It is a strategy that serves them well as they reveal the changing moods of the people and the effects of technological advances on all strata of New York society."--Booklist "Like one of the zeppellins that furturists imagined would lie tethered to the masts of New York skyscrapers, the narrative of Gotham hovers over the city, drifting along thematic currents, occasionally catching a cataclysmic gust: it drops in for a vivid close-up only to reascend, with equal aplomb, for a global ...
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It is a stunning work."--Jane Alexander"An epic narrative worthy of the world's greatest city, Gotham is a marvelously-written and sweeping book that is based throughout on the latest scholarship."--Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New York City"Gotham is a masterpiece. It is the best history of New York City ever written.
- Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
