{"product_id":"new-york-burning-book-jill-lepore-9781400032266","title":"New York Burning","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER * A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNew York Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49874159239441,"sku":"CIN1400032261G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50191709569297,"sku":"CIN1400032261VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50786126922001,"sku":"GOR009830190","price":8.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52082855051537,"sku":"GOR014482267","price":11.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52722072191249,"sku":"NIN9781400032266","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1400032261.jpg?v=1751083260","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/new-york-burning-book-jill-lepore-9781400032266","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}