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The history of New York City / Bill Harris.
- Title
- The history of New York City / Bill Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Bill, 1933-
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Portland House : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | F128.3 .H27 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 208 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- Boston and Philadelphia were founded, they said, on religious principles--but when the Dutch settled on Manhattan Island, they were dedicated to making money. Their legacy is still what makes New York work. This is the story of how it has worked since Henry Hudson cheated his Dutch employers, and of the men they sent to recover their investment who managed to turn cheating the company into anyone's game. It is the story of Peter Stuyvesant, who held New Amsterdam together with bluster and diplomacy, and of his loss of the colony to the minions of the Duke of York, who had some profit-making ideas of their own. It is the story of colonists conspiring with the enemy during the Revolution, not so much because they liked the Redcoats, but because they liked their money; and of the man who made New York the capital of the new nation, but who compromised away the honor in favor of making it the country's financial center. And it is the story of the men who built on that foundation. New York is what it is because of these men. But none of them could have accomplished what they did anywhere but New York.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- ISBN
- 0517689057
- 9780517689059
- LCCN
- 89008534
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries