Author: Austin Parsons StockwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gravesend (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A History of the Town of Gravesend, N.Y.
Author: Austin Parsons StockwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gravesend (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Gravesend, Brooklyn
Author: Eric IerardiPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738572321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Photographs often hold mysteries and memories of our past. In this vivid and captivating new photographic history, readers are transported back to an exciting time, when the town of Gravesend, Brooklyn was one of the six original towns later to become part of the great City of Brooklyn. Originally an isolated English-speaking community amidst many other Dutch areas in the region, Gravesend developed into a thriving seaside resort, with Coney Island becoming the "playground of the world," and Sheepshead Bay an important fishing community with fabulous places to dine and enjoy the fruits of the sea.
Gravesend, Brooklyn
Author: Joseph DittaPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738564692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Permanently settled in 1645, the farming town of Gravesend, Long Island, was annexed to the city (now borough) of Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. Few reminders from Gravesend's rural days survive around the urban landscape it has become. Even its more recent past is quickly disappearing.
Historical Guide to the City of New York
Author: City History Club of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
History of the Town of Gravesend, N.Y.
Author: A. P. StockwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brooklyn
Author: Thomas J. CampanellaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208611
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
Inventory of the County and Borough Archives of New York City: i.e., 4 . Bronx Borough
Author: Historical Records Survey (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Horizons of Anthropology
Author: Sol TaxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351515160
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the volume's contributors include people who have shaped anthropology's future. As Gluckman says in his Preface, the contributions "point to the horizons of increasing understanding of man, his evolution and his social setting, as seen by a rising generation of scholars." The book includes chapters on how man gradually became different from other primates--on the origin and nature of language and its contribution to our peculiarities as human beings. It surveys the long history of human culture and societies and the theories about their similarities and differences; it discusses human equality and inequality, and it considers, from the anthropologist's point of view, economics, politics, law, religion, medicine, and the arts. In recent decades the various branches of anthropology--physical, cultural, psychological, and social--have become more specialized, and each branch is increasingly linking itself to its appropriate cognate, biological, psychological, or social sciences. Yet there remains a central common field to anthropology, as the science of man, for practitioners in all its branches. This book develops that common interest and deals with the specific problems of various parts of the field. The book brings out the basic nature of anthropology and the extraordinary fascination that lies in the systematic study of the exuberant variety of human societies and customs.
Bibliography Of New York Colonial History (1901)
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1437481280
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Gravesend
Author: William BoylePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
It’s been sixteen years since “Ray Boy” Calabrese’s actions led to the death of a young man. The victim’s brother, Conway D’Innocenzio, is now a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and drawn into a darker side of himself when he hears that Ray Boy’s has been released. But even with the perfect plan in place, Conway can’t bring himself to take the ultimate revenge.Meanwhile, failed actress Alessandra returns to her native Gravesend after the death of her mother, torn between a desperate need to escape immediately back to LA and the ease with which she sinks back into neighborhood life. Alessandra and Conway are walking eerily similar paths—staring down the rest of their lives, caring for their aging fathers, lost in the youths they squandered—and each must decide what comes next.In the tradition of American noir authors like Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, William Boyle’s Gravesend brings the titular neighborhood to life in this story of revenge, desperation, and escape.