Gotham: A History of new York City to 1898 [Audiobook] download free by Mike Wallace
- Listen audiobook: Gotham: A History of new York City to 1898
- Author: Mike Wallace
- Release date: 2001/8/23
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780195140491
- Rating: 8.74 of 10
- Votes: 799
- Review by: Titan Brinkley
- Review rating: 7.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/1
- Duration: 17H52M15S in 256 kbps (281.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPEG4, AC3, MP3, WMA, FLAC (compression ZIP, RAR, Z, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 1408
- Includes a PDF summary of 168 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 2H7M37S (33.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, racoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today it is the city of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe.In 'Gotham', Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history,on ethat ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army onBrooklyn Heoghts, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial centre, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War,the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands - the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich village from the city's grid street plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who hapily celebrated that same life. We meet Boss Tweed and his nemesis,cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greely; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his 'white angels'(who revolutionised the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont and William Randolph Hearst;and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city.The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerise everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Local History, Social & Cultural History, History Of The Americas, Economic History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 69.90 USD
- Dimensions: 179x254x55mm
- Weight: 2,146g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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