03180cam a2200337 a 4500 115034 20230404125842.0 110714s2011 nyuabf b 001 0deng 16870720 2011283059 9780802119100 0802119107 (OCoLC)ocn555627823 BTCTA BTCTA YDXCP CPL BWX UPP ILC NSB DLC lccopycat n-us-ny 002 F 128.68 G475h 2011 974.71 Gill, Jonathan (Professor) Harlem : the four hundred year history from Dutch village to capital of Black America / Jonathan Gill. New York : Grove Press ; Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2011. 520 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-479) and index. Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in its history. In this work the author, a historian presents a chronicle of this remarkable place. From Henry Hudson's first contact with native Harlemites, through Harlem's years as a colonial outpost on the edge of the known world, he traces the neighborhood's story, marshaling a wealth of detail and a host of figures from George Washington to Langston Hughes. Harlem was an agricultural center under British rule and the site of a key early battle in the Revolutionary War. Later, wealthy elites including Alexander Hamilton built great estates there for entertainment and respite from the epidemics ravaging downtown. In the nineteenth century, transportation urbanized Harlem and brought waves of immigrants from Germany, Italy, Ireland, and elsewhere. Harlem's mix of cultures, extraordinary wealth and extreme poverty was electrifying and explosive. This work is the history of the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, beginning with Hudson's first experiences in the area, through its early growth as a Dutch village and colonial agricultural center, to its transformation into a modern neighborhood. Unrighteous beginnings: from Muscoota to Nieuw Haarlem, 1609-1664 -- Strange bedfellows: British Harlem, 1664-1781 -- Sweet asylum: founding an American Harlem, 1781-1811 -- The future is uptown, 1811-1863 -- The flash age, 1863-1898 -- Nostra Harlem, undzere Harlem: the age of immigration -- "To race with the world": the new Negro and the Harlem Renaissance -- "The kingdom of culture": Harlem's Renaissance comes of age -- "Moon over Harlem": the Great Depression uptown, 1929-1943 -- "Tempus fugue-it": Harlem in the Civil Rights Era, 1943-1965 -- Harlem nightmare, 1965-1990 -- Old and new dreams: reviving the Renaissance. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) History. African Americans New York (State) New York History. Harlem (Nueva York, N.Y.) Historia. Primera Jornada de Catalogacion. lcc bk 5977 5977 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 002 F 128.68 G475h 2011 00000108429 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk