Cityscapes A History of New York in Images |
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| Author:
| Rock, Howard B. |
| Editor:
| Moore, Deborah Dash |
| Series title: | Columbia History of Urban Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-10624-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2001 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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Through almost 800 images, Cityscapes tells the story of the city from its origins in the early seventeenth century through the end of the twentieth century. In lithographs, paintings, drawings, and broadsides, New York is portrayed as rising from a small Dutch outpost to a republican seaport whose life was framed by the American Revolution to its transformation as the world economic and artistic capital of the late twentieth century.
Through almost 800 images, Cityscapes tells the story of the city from its origins in the early seventeenth century through the end of the twentieth century. In lithographs, paintings, drawings, and broadsides, New York is portrayed as rising from a small Dutch outpost to a republican seaport whose life was framed by the American Revolution to its transformation as the world economic and artistic capital of the late twentieth century.