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245 10 a| Greater Gotham :b| a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 /c| Mike Wallace.;

264 1 a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2017];

300 a| xi, 1,182 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 26 cm.;

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337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

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490 1 a| The Gotham series ;v| volume 2;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and indexes.;

505 0 a| Part one. Consolidations and contradictions -- Mergers -- Acquisitions -- Consolidation -- Wall Street -- Critics and crisis -- Who rules New York? -- Part two. Construction and connection -- Sky boom -- Arteries -- Ligaments -- Housing -- Industrial and commercial city -- Part three. Cultures -- Acropoli -- Show biz -- Popular cultures -- Seeing New York -- Part four. Confrontations -- Progressives -- Repressives -- Union town -- Radicals -- Bending gender -- Black metropolis -- Insurgent art -- Part five. Wars -- Over there? -- Over here.;

520 2 a| "In Greater Gotham Mike Wallace, co-author of GOTHAM, picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large--and largely fueling it. The names of two its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence: Wall Street and Broadway. 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 York's growing dominance over the arts, media, and entertainment. It captures and illuminates the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom, to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, to the labor upheavals and repressions during and after the World War One. By 1920, New York was the second-largest city in the world and arguably its new capital"--Provided by publisher.;

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Greater Gotham : a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 / Mike Wallace.

Author/creator	Wallace, Mike, 1942- author.
Other author	Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-2018.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Description	xi, 1,182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects	New York (N.Y.)--History. --1898-1951. New York (State)--New York.

Series	The Gotham series ; volume 2 Gotham series ; v. 2. ^A1355653
Contents	Part one. Consolidations and contradictions -- Mergers -- Acquisitions -- Consolidation -- Wall Street -- Critics and crisis -- Who rules New York? -- Part two. Construction and connection -- Sky boom -- Arteries -- Ligaments -- Housing -- Industrial and commercial city -- Part three. Cultures -- Acropoli -- Show biz -- Popular cultures -- Seeing New York -- Part four. Confrontations -- Progressives -- Repressives -- Union town -- Radicals -- Bending gender -- Black metropolis -- Insurgent art -- Part five. Wars -- Over there? -- Over here.
Scope and content	"In Greater Gotham Mike Wallace, co-author of GOTHAM, picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large--and largely fueling it. The names of two its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence: Wall Street and Broadway. 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 York's growing dominance over the arts, media, and entertainment. It captures and illuminates the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom, to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, to the labor upheavals and repressions during and after the World War One. By 1920, New York was the second-largest city in the world and arguably its new capital"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2017005224
ISBN	9780195116359 hardcover ; acid-free paper
ISBN	0195116356 hardcover ; acid-free paper

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