Greater Gotham : a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 /
In Greater Gotham, Mike Wallace picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. Between consolidation and the en...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Gotham ;
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| Summary: | In Greater Gotham, Mike Wallace picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large, and largely fueling it. The names of two its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence, Wall Street and Broadway. Greater Gotham reveals the workings of the city's consolidation, the emerging hegemony of its financial markets, which effectively reconstructed U.S. capitalism, the influx of migrants from other continents and from the American South, the development of its massive infrastructure, subways, waterways and electrical grid and New York's growing dominance over the arts, media and entertainment. It captures and illuminates the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom, to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, to the labor upheavals and repressions during and after the World War One. By 1920, New York was the second-largest city in the world and arguably its new capital. |
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| Item Description: | Color maps on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 1182 pages : illustraitons, maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780195116359 0195116356 |