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12 gen 2023 · 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 and waterways and electrical grid; and New ...
1 nov 2018 · The takeaway from Wallace’s Greater Gotham is that New York City was big, plenty big. His story begins with a detailed and persuasive account of the late nineteenth-century consolidation of the city and ends in 1919, with a metropolis bursting with energy, wealth, and prospects.
- Eric Homberger
- 2018
4 feb 2019 · It takes more than a thousand pages to chronicle this scope over just two decades of New York City’s long history—the length Greater Gotham’s prequel devoted to three centuries (Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 [1998]).
- Marion R. Casey
- 2019
It takes more than a thousand pages to chronicle this scope over just two decades of New York City’s long history—the length Greater Gotham’s prequel devoted to three centuries (Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 [1998]).
- Marion R Casey
4 set 2017 · The city exploded into the air, with skyscrapers jostling for prominence, and dove deep into the bedrock where massive underground networks of subways, water pipes, and electrical conduits...
- 0199911460, 9780199911462
- Mike Wallace
- Oxford University Press, 2017
19 nov 1998 · In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the...
In Gotham, Edwin O. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it chronicles. Drawing on the work of hundreds of scholars who have reexamined New York's past, the authors weave together diverse histories--of sex and sewer systems, finance and architecture, immigration and politics, poetry and crime--into a ...
