04913cam a2200469 i 4500 22006253 BJBSDDR 20250327164553.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 210421s2021 nyuab b 001 0deng 2021019089 9780593534144 (hardcover) 059353414X (hardcover) DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc n-us-ny 002 F 128.3 B967n 2021 974.7/1 Burns, Ric, 1955- 41412 New York : an illustrated history / narrative by Ric Burns and James Sanders ; picture editor Lisa Ades. Third edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. xvii, 829 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 x 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf." Includes bibliographical references (pages 807-811) and index. Introduction: city of desire The country and the city, 1609-1825 Order and disorder, 1825-1865 Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 The power and the people, 1898-1919 Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 The city of tomorrow, 1931-1939 The city and the world, 1939-2000 The center of the world, 1946-2002 City for a new century, 2002-2012 The future of cities, 2013-2021 Epilogue: the great reset "The companion volume to the PBS television series, with more than 500 full-color and black-and-white illustrations This lavish and handsomely produced book captures all the beauty, complexity, and power of New York -- the city that seems the very embodiment of ambition, aspiration, romance, desire; the city that has epitomized the entire parade of modern life, with all its possibilities and problems. Chronicling the story of New York from its establishment as a Dutch trading post in 1624 to its global preeminence today, the book is at once the biography of a great city and a vivid exploration of the myriad forces -- commercial, cultural, demographic -- that converged in New York to usher in the contemporary world. Weaving the strands of the city's sweeping history into a single compelling narrative, New York carries us through nearly four centuries of turbulent growth and change -- from the first settlement on the tip of "Manna-hata" Island to the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War; to the city's stunning emergence in the nineteenth century as the nation's premier industrial metropolis; to the waves of early-twentieth-century immigration that forever transformed the city and the nation; to New York's transfiguration as the world's first modern city -- pioneering skyscrapers, apartment houses, subways, and highways -- and its role as the birthplace of so much of American popular culture. Along the way, we witness the building of the city's celebrated landmarks and neighborhoods, from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building and the United Nations; from Wall Street and Times Square to the Lower East Side, Harlem, and SoHo. The book brims with vibrant illustrations, including hundreds of rare photographs, paintings, lithographs, prints, and period maps. The narrative incorporates the voices and stories of men and women -- statesmen, entrepreneurs, artists, and visionaries -- who have lived in and built the city: an extraordinary cast of characters that includes Peter Stuyvesant, Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, Walt Whitman, Boss Tweed, Jacob Riis, Emma Lazarus, J. P. Morgan, Al Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, and Jane Jacobs. Accompanying the book's narrative are interviews with Robert A. Caro, David Levering Lewis, and Robert A. M. Stern, and essays by a group of distinguished New York historians and critics, including Kenneth T. Jackson, Mike Wallace, Marshall Berman, Phillip Lopate, Carol Berkin, and Daniel Czitrom, who add their insights about the city to this splendid history. Now with a new preface to the introduction and two new chapters that address the transformation in the twenty-first century, from 9/11 through the Covid-19 pandemic"-- Provided by publisher. New York (N.Y.) History. Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Historia 8811 New York (N.Y.) History Pictorial works. Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Obras pictóricas 37896 Sanders, James, 1955- narrator 41413 Ades, Lisa editor 41414 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123108 123108 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2025-03-27 0 002 F 128.3 B967n 2021 00000188190 2025-03-27 00:00:00 1 2025-03-27 BK