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Author: Robert Apuzzo Publisher: R & L Publishing (NY) ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
Robert Apuzzo's "NEW YORK CITY'S BURIED PAST" is the first book of its kind to be published in more than 70 years that deals expressly with artifacts salvaged from specific sites in Manhattan dating back to the Revolutionary period. * "NEW YORK CITY'S BURIED PAST" is not only destined to become a classic, but it will be an indispensable source of reference for archaeologists & historians in the years ahead. * An excellent reference guide for the professional, amateur, or armchair archaeologist. With this reference guide, one can easily make comparisons with other Revolutionary period sites. * Readers will find here new & interesting photos & illustrations of British regimental buttons, bottles, shoe buckles, coins, etc., all of which have been found buried under many layers of our cultural debris. * Intended for individuals interested in New York City's History. The early maps & the foreword will guide you through the streets of New York City during an exciting period of New York City history. To Order: R & L Publishing, 28 Vesey St., Suite 2116, New York, NY 10007. $24.95 plus $2.00 S/H. Volume discounts are available from publisher.
Author: Robert Apuzzo Publisher: R & L Publishing (NY) ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
Robert Apuzzo's "NEW YORK CITY'S BURIED PAST" is the first book of its kind to be published in more than 70 years that deals expressly with artifacts salvaged from specific sites in Manhattan dating back to the Revolutionary period. * "NEW YORK CITY'S BURIED PAST" is not only destined to become a classic, but it will be an indispensable source of reference for archaeologists & historians in the years ahead. * An excellent reference guide for the professional, amateur, or armchair archaeologist. With this reference guide, one can easily make comparisons with other Revolutionary period sites. * Readers will find here new & interesting photos & illustrations of British regimental buttons, bottles, shoe buckles, coins, etc., all of which have been found buried under many layers of our cultural debris. * Intended for individuals interested in New York City's History. The early maps & the foreword will guide you through the streets of New York City during an exciting period of New York City history. To Order: R & L Publishing, 28 Vesey St., Suite 2116, New York, NY 10007. $24.95 plus $2.00 S/H. Volume discounts are available from publisher.
Author: John L. Cotter Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812231422 Category : Archaeology and history Languages : en Pages : 563
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The Buried Past presents the most significant archaeological discoveries made in one of America's most historic cities. Based on more than thirty years of intensive archaeological investigations in the greater Philadelphia area, this study contains the first record of many nationally important sites linking archaeological evidence to historical documentation, including Interdependence and Valley Forge National Historical Parks. It provides an archaeological tour through the houses and life-ways of both the great figures and the common people. It reveals how people dined, what vessels and dishes they used, and what their trinkets (and secret sins) were.
Author: C. A. Weslager Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1512819298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Charles E. Orser Jnr Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134608624 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 624
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A-Z organised Entries are written by an international team of 127 experts in the field Includes 29 b+w illustrations including 23 half-tones Contains cross references, suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index
Author: Anne-Marie E. Cantwell Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300097993 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 388
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Under the teeming metropolis that is present-day New York City lie the buried remains of long-lost worlds. The remnants of nineteenth-century New York reveal much about its inhabitants and neighborhoods, from fashionable Washington Square to the notorious Five Points. Underneath there are traces of the Dutch and English colonists who arrived in the area in the seventeenth century, as well as of the Africans they enslaved. And beneath all these layers is the land that Native Americans occupied for hundreds of generations from their first arrival eleven thousand years ago. Now two distinguished archaeologists draw on the results of more than a century of excavations to relate the interconnected stories of these different peoples who shared and shaped the land that makes up the modern city. In treating New York's five boroughs as one enormous archaeological site, Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall weave Native American, colonial, and post-colonial history into an absorbing, panoramic narrative. They also describe the work of the archaeologists who uncovered this evidence--nineteenth-century pioneers, concerned citizens, and today's professionals. In the process, Cantwell and Wall raise provocative questions about the nature of cities, urbanization, the colonial experience, Indian life, the family, and the use of space. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Unearthing Gotham offers a fresh perspective on the richness of the American legacy.
Author: Anthony Aveni Publisher: Roaring Brook Press ISBN: 1596439130 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 98
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A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Author: Stephen Kimber Publisher: Anchor Canada ISBN: 0385672802 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country. The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of the future intended to sustain them through the nightmare of the present. Abandoned by the king to whom they had promised their loyalty, unwelcome in the land that had so recently been theirs, they had no choice but to flee. But to where? And for what? Their dream was to build a new and improved New York City. They would do this on the rocky shores of Roseway Bay, on the south coast of Nova Scotia, beside one of the best harbours in the world. The city would be cosmopolitan, but more refined, more royal, more loyal, and certainly more exclusive than the one they were now preparing to leave behind forever. At first, it seemed as if their dream would come true. Within the decade, however, Shelburne was a wasteland of abandoned homes and shops. What happened? Plagued by drought, fires, and poor land quality, Shelburne’s fortunes quickly fell. Vividly told through the intertwined narratives of an eclectic collection of its early settlers, Loyalists and Layabouts is the fascinating story of Shelburne’s “rapid rise and faster fall.”
Author: Fred Goodman Publisher: Broadway ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
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In the spirit of Joseph Mitchell and E. L. Doctorow, a haunting and genre-defying portrait gallery of once-eminent, now half-forgotten New Yorkers buried in the city's largest cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery is a massive necropolis, four hundred immaculately and privately maintained acres in the north Bronx that serve as the final resting place for three hundred thousand New Yorkers. It is a place of startling serenity and architectural distinction as well as cultural and historical significance that nonetheless remains unknown to the majority of people who live in the city. Which is surprising when one learns that its (very) long-term inhabitants include Herman Melville, Duke Ellington, Robert Moses, Fiorello La Guardia, Miles Davis, and dozens of Gilded Age grandeesincluding Goulds and Astorswho were determined to spend eternity with opulence to match their residences while alive. Writer Fred Goodman stumbled upon Woodlawn one day when he wandered off his bicycling path.The Secret Cityis the product of his frankly obsessive researches into the lives of many of the once famed, now forgotten men and women buried there. Featuring nine dramatic episodes, chronologically arranged, each story presents an exceptional individual caught up in a defining or historical moment of New York's social, political, commercial, or artistic life. Readers meet phrenologist and publisher Orson Fowler, ASPCA founder Henry Bergh, Gilded Age railroad magnate Austin Corbin, political satirist Finley Peter Dunne, "Boy Mayor" John Purroy Mitchel, attorney Francis Garvan, sculptor Attilio Piccirilli, Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, leftist East Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio, and pioneering aviatrix Ruth Nichols. Framing and tying together these novelistic tales is the first-person narrative of the author's discovery of Woodlawn and his research.The Secret Cityis, then, an act of resurrectiona way of putting flesh on the anonymous dead, and humanizing and demystifying a city whose fabulous history is, too often, interred with its inhabitants.
Author: Robert Apuzzo
Author: Robert Apuzzo
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