Author: Erastus BrooksPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385311225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Historical Records of Staten Island
Author: Erastus BrooksPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385311233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Haunted History of Staten Island
Author: Lynda Lee MackenPublisher: Black Cat Press (NJ)
ISBN: 9780970071804
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Historical and Genealogical Miscellany
Author: The Earliest Volume of Staten Island Records, 1678-1813
Author: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Early History of Staten Island
Author: Cornelius G [From Old Catalog] KolffPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344520679
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
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The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star
Author: John Overton ChoulesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Greater Gotham
Author: Mike WallacePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195116356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1195
Book Description
Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York
Gotham Unbound
Author: Ted SteinbergPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476741301
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth. Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg. “Weighty and wonderful…Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them. With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny….And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).
Bibliography Of New York Colonial History (1901)
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1437481280
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Staten Island, New York City
Author: Commerce and Industry Association of New York. Industrial BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description