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New York : an illustrated history
- Title
- New York : an illustrated history / narrative by Ric Burns and James Sanders ; picture editor, Lisa Ades.
- Author
- Burns, Ric.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©2003.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG F128.3 .B945 2003 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 625 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm
- Summary
- Examines the history of New York City, from 1609 to the September 11th terrorist attack and its aftermath, with interviews and essays.
- Uniform Title
- New York (Television program)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Illustrated works.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Note
- Previous ed. 1999.
- "Reprinted March 2008."
- "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
- "Based on "New York : a documentary film" directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ..."--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-611) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : City of desire -- The country and the city, 1609-1825 -- Alexander Hamilton, the New Yorker with a national vision / by Carol Berkin -- Order and disorder, 1825-1865 -- "The locomotive of these United States" / by Mike Wallace -- Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 -- The secrets of the great city / by Daniel Czitrom -- The power and the people, 1898-1919 -- Where the modern world took shape, 1898-1929 / by Kenneth T. Jackson -- Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 -- Harlem renaissance / interview with David Levering Lewis -- Cosmopolitan capital : New York in the 1920s / interview with Robert A.M. Stern -- The city of tomorrow, 1931-1939 -- Robert Moses : the power broker / interview with Robert A. Caro -- The city and the world, 1939-1969 -- The lonely crowd : New York after the war / by Marshall Berman -- Trauma, apocalypse, boom, aftermath : New York City in the last twenty-five years / by Phillip Lopate -- City of the millennium -- Epilogue : The center of the world.
- Call Number
- F128.3
- ISBN
- 1400041465
- 9781400041466
- 0375710329
- 9780375710322
- LCCN
- 2003272405
- OCLC
- 54858055
- Author
- Burns, Ric.
- Title
- New York : an illustrated history / narrative by Ric Burns and James Sanders ; picture editor, Lisa Ades.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©2003.
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-611) and index.
- Processing Action
- committed to retain 20160630 20310630 EAST Smith copy: EAST commitment
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Sanders, James, 1955-Ades, Lisa.
- Added Title
- New York (Television program)
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG F128.3 .B945 2003