Author: Reginald Pelham BoltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021835055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Indian Paths In The Great Metropolis, Part 1
Author: Reginald Pelham BoltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021835055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
Author: Reginald Pelham BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Bowery
Author: Eric FerraraPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614230048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The cultural and criminal history of downtown Manhattan comes to life in this far-reaching exploration of a legendary street. Originally a Lenape trail running the length of Manhattan Island, The Bowery has become one of the most notorious streets in America. Developed in stages by the Dutch, the British, and then Americans, this stretch of street has continually risen from its own ashes, experiencing a seemingly endless cycle of popularity, poverty and prosperity. The Bowery has been celebrated as a haven of culture, entertainment, and theatre. But is has just as often been denigrated as New York's "skid row." Home to bums, bohemians, criminals, artists, performers, and the rich and poor alike, The Bowery has attracted the most diverse population of any place in New York City's history. Travel down the Bowery with New York City historian Eric Ferrara, as he explores its rich, fascinating, and at times, troubling past.
Before Central Park
Author: Sara Cedar MillerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.
Indian Notes and Monographs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
American Anthropologist
Author: List of Publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Author: Museum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
List of Publications of the Museum of the American Indian
Author: Museum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Indian Notes and Monographs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Book of Unconformities
Author: Hugh RafflesPublisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.