Empire City by Kenneth Jackson
The dean of New York history brings together a wide-ranging, eclectic, and entertaining survey of the best writing about the city of New York and its people
The city, in all its confounding glory, is the subject of Kenneth TJackson and David S. Dunbar's anthology, Empire City. New Yorker A rich harvest of wide-ranging writings about New York City. Library Journal A huge-but readable-collection of nearly 400 years of writing about New York. New York Magazine The sheer amount of out-of-the-way text and lore among these 158 pieces is worth the price of admission; the city comes alive through the texts it has produced. Publishers Weekly Fine... a well-wrought anthology. -- Fred Siegel New York Sun This volume is an anthology to be savored...Empire City is a treat for anyone who is interested in New York. -- Barbara Blumberg The Historian A monumental documentary history of New York City... These documents illustrate much of the American experience beyond the five boroughs. This collection is of value to anyone who seeks to add eyewitness understanding to his or her perception of the development and growth of the United States. -- John A. Grigg New York History [Kenneth Jackson and David Dunbar's] excellent anthology of New York writings. -- Russell Shorto New York Times Magazine
Kenneth T. Jackson is Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, and president of the New-York Historical Society. He edited the monumental Encyclopedia of New York City and was a prominent contributor to the PBS documentary New York and its companion volume. David S. Dunbar is co-founder and academic dean of CITYterm at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, an interdisciplinary, experience-based semester program that immerses high school students from around the country in the history, literature, and culture of New York City. He lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231109086 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231109083 |
| Title | Empire City |
| Author | Kenneth Jackson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2002-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 1008 |
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