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History of New York
«Weil skillfully weaves myriad details and insights about this multicultural metropolis into a coherent work. Library Journal Weil's coverage of the city's history after the late 19th century is concise and thought-provoking... Recommended. Choice Histories of New York City... are wither very thin, or very thick... in the under-five-pound category, this volume wins hands down. New York Journal of American History Weil's Histoire de New York, published in French in 2000, deserves translation -- Eric Homberger Journal of American History Skillfully translated. -- Angela M. Blake Urban History Weil offers compelling portraits of popular culture... Well done and interesting... Moving at the breathtaking speed. -- Keith D. Revell American Historical Review»
New York is not America, Francois Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and energy was once quite low in the political and social hierarchy. Les mer
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New York is not America, Francois Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and energy was once quite low in the political and social hierarchy. Weil takes on the New York of myth and offers a compelling chronicle of how it actually developed into a global city-what some have called the capital of the twenty-first century. He shows how the uneasy tension between capitalism and multiculturalism has been at the heart of the city's immense physical, social, economic, and cultural transformation-as well as of American notions of what urban "space" is, for whom it exists, and how it is used. The book also captures what makes the city exceptional-from the arts and literature to popular culture and party politics-and reveals New York as both a unique space and a model of American diversity.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231129350
- Utgivelsesår
- 2004
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«Weil skillfully weaves myriad details and insights about this multicultural metropolis into a coherent work. Library Journal Weil's coverage of the city's history after the late 19th century is concise and thought-provoking... Recommended. Choice Histories of New York City... are wither very thin, or very thick... in the under-five-pound category, this volume wins hands down. New York Journal of American History Weil's Histoire de New York, published in French in 2000, deserves translation -- Eric Homberger Journal of American History Skillfully translated. -- Angela M. Blake Urban History Weil offers compelling portraits of popular culture... Well done and interesting... Moving at the breathtaking speed. -- Keith D. Revell American Historical Review»
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