Author: Edward Thomas Coke
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Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Roger Horowitz
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918020
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.

Author: Edward Thomas Coke
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: Daniel S. Levy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195382374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible - the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and New Jersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing, Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating fire of 1835 - a catastrophe that revealed how truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was - to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The one led to other. New York effectively had to start over. Daniel Levy's book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African-American oysterman Thomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick who battled the blaze, and celebrates the work of the architect Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich. It chronicles the career of the merchant Alexander Stewart who constructed the first department store, follows the struggles of the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, and records of the efforts of the engineer John Bloomfield Jervis who brought clean water into homes. And this resurgence owed so much to the visionaries, such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who designed Central Park, creating a refuge that it remains to this day. Manhattan Phoenix reveals a city first in flames and then in flux but resolute in its determination to emerge as one of the world's greatest metropolises.

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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton 1st baron Lytton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W.). Reference Department
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1042

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Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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