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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “clean pages, tight binding, original dustjacket, Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards”
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Subject
- Art & Photography
- Features
- 1st Edition
- Topic
- Photography
- Year Printed
- 2000
- ISBN
- 9780231107280
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Picturing New York : the City from Its Beginnings to the Present
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 11.1in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Width
- 9.4in
- Item Weight
- 62.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Information
As every reader knows, New York defies any single attempt to take its measure. Here is a unique approach: a single-volume, thematically organized history of the city filled with prints, paintings, and photographs--many in full color--that make the book a feast for the eye. The book consists of fourteen mini-histories, each of which can be read independently of the others. The author explores the city's multiple birth (it was named and renamed five times, and was originally known as Angoul me, not as New Amsterdam as most people believe). De k covers the religious pluralism the city enjoyed as a scruffy Atlantic trading post, the marketing and merchandising that propelled its development, and the rise of the arts, literature, architecture, and sports. Throughout, the author attempts to answer the beguiling question: Was New York unique from the beginning? Readers will find: - The map recording the visit of the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano to Manhattan Island, circa 1540 - The print depicting the defensive barricade, built in 1653 by Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant, which gave Wall Street its name - Artists' renditions of a bucolic ninteenth-century Brooklyn--before bridges transformed it into an extension of the Manhattan megalopolis - An 1892 planning sketch of the Grand Concourse, the Bronx's principal boulevard, intended to simulate the grandeur of Parisian roadways and ultimately to outclass Manhattan. Comments from observers as diverse as Alexis de Tocqueville, Frances Trollope, Fanny Kemble, Charles Dickens, Sarah Bernhardt, Leon Trotsky, Fernand Leger, and W. H. Auden create an immediate sense of time and place and animate an already lively work.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231107285
ISBN-13
9780231107280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1638865
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Picturing New York : the City from Its Beginnings to the Present
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.1in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.4in
Item Weight
62.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F128.3.D38 2000
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"An elegant combination of impressive illustration, perceptive text and spacious format gives this volume distinction.... Deák's knowledge of historical and pictorial resources is daunting." -- Peter Skinner, ForeWord Magazine, An elegant combination of impressive illustration, perceptive text and spacious format gives this volume distinction.... Dek's knowledge of historical and pictorial resources is daunting., An elegant combination of impressive illustration, perceptive text and spacious format gives this volume distinction.... De k's knowledge of historical and pictorial resources is daunting., "Unique among books telling the tale of New York, Gloria Deák's volume is a lively work that will delight reader's interested in the nation's largest city...Each section is generously illustrated with meaningful and important historical images, regardless of medium or place of origin. The result makes for wonderful reading...This is a most enjoyable book." -- Imprint, "Unique among books telling the tale of New York, Gloria De k's volume is a lively work that will delight reader's interested in the nation's largest city...Each section is generously illustrated with meaningful and important historical images, regardless of medium or place of origin. The result makes for wonderful reading...This is a most enjoyable book." -- Imprint, Unique among books telling the tale of New York, Gloria Deák's volume is a lively work that will delight reader's interested in the nation's largest city...Each section is generously illustrated with meaningful and important historical images, regardless of medium or place of origin. The result makes for wonderful reading...This is a most enjoyable book., Unique among books telling the tale of New York, Gloria Dek's volume is a lively work that will delight reader's interested in the nation's largest city...Each section is generously illustrated with meaningful and important historical images, regardless of medium or place of origin. The result makes for wonderful reading...This is a most enjoyable book., Unique among books telling the tale of New York, Gloria De k's volume is a lively work that will delight reader's interested in the nation's largest city...Each section is generously illustrated with meaningful and important historical images, regardless of medium or place of origin. The result makes for wonderful reading...This is a most enjoyable book., An elegant combination of impressive illustration, perceptive text and spacious format gives this volume distinction.... Deák's knowledge of historical and pictorial resources is daunting., "An elegant combination of impressive illustration, perceptive text and spacious format gives this volume distinction.... De k's knowledge of historical and pictorial resources is daunting." -- Peter Skinner, ForeWord Magazine
Table of Content
Preface 1. A Multiple Birth: The European Discovery and Naming of Manhattan: Angoulême, New Amsterdam, New York, New Orange, and Forever After, New York 2. A Multireligious Destiny: The Early Establishment of Religious Pluralism in Churches and Schools 3. Seafaring Splendor: The Shaping of New York's Destiny as a World-Class Seaport 4. Merchant Princes: The Lure of Marketing, Merchandising, and Moneymaking 5. Peopling New York: Asia, Europe, and Africa Transplanted 6. A City of Contrasts: Ascent of the Rich and Struggles of the Poor 7. Broadway: The Metamorphosis of a Manhattan Street 8. Brooklyn and Staten Island: The People, Parks, and Ambience 9. The Bronx and Queens: The People, Parks and Ambience 10. Politicians for all Seasons: Peter Stuyvesant, Thomas Dongan, Fernando Wood, and Fiorello La Guardia 11. Triumphs of Architecture and Urban Engineering: Buildings, Bridges, Parks, and the City's Underground 12. Painting, Theater, Music, and Dance: New York's Rise as an International Center in All Phases of the Arts 13. Communication as Art and as Industry: Literature, Newspapers, Printing, and Publishing 14. Sports for All Seasons and All Fans: Take Me Out to the Ballgame Notes Bibliography Picture Credits Index
Copyright Date
2000
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), United States / General
Lccn
99-054832
Dewey Decimal
974.7/1
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Photography, Travel, History
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