Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Antwerp-New York
Author: Erwin JoosPublisher: Exhibitions International
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Growing up in the docklands of Antwerp in the late nineteenth century, Eugene Van Mieghem watched the comings and goings on the Red Star Line from his parents' cafa across Montevideo Street. His early years coincided with the expansion of Antwerp Harbor and an increasing exodus to the New World. As a child and then a young adult, he spent as much time as he could sketching harbor views and portraits of the people around him, often in the midst of those historic departures. Antwerp-New York intermixes that work with historical material to create a moving profile of the massive movement of humanity that brought 3 million people past Van Mieghem's doorstep and over the Atlantic to New York.
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Europe's Babylon
Author: Michael PyePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643137786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A revelatory history of Antwerp—from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury—by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of the World. Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp. In the Age of Exploration, Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. It was somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers, easy kisses, a market in secrets and every kind of heresy. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules—religious, sexual, intellectual. And it was a place of change—a single man cornered all the money in the city and reinvented ideas of what money meant. Another gave the city a new shape purely out of his own ambition. Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition needed Antwerp for their escape, thanks to the remarkable woman at the head of the grandest banking family in Europe. Thomas More opened Utopia there, Erasmus puzzled over money and exchanges, William Tyndale sheltered there and smuggled out his Bible in English until he was killed. Pieter Bruegel painted the town as The Tower of Babel. But when Antwerp rebelled with the Dutch against the Spanish and lost, all that glory was buried and its true history rewritten. The city that unsettled so many now became conformist. Mutinous troops burned the city records, trying to erase its true history. In Europe’s Babylon, Michael Pye sets out to rediscover the city that was lost and bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels, paintings, songs, schoolbooks, letters and the archives of Venice, London and the Medici. He builds a picture of a city haunted by fire, plague, and violence, but one that was learning how to be a power in its own right as it emerged from feudalism. An astounding and original narrative that illuminates this glamorous and bloody era of history and reveals how this fascinating city played its role in making the world modern.
Transport Service of the Government
Author: United States. Congress. House Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
For Consideration Of Parental Love And Good Will.pdf
Author: Scott William BarkerPublisher: Scott William Barker
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Merchant Marine Bulletin
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The World's Paper Trade Review
Author: Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs
Author: Cuyler ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
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