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The Building of Cities

Development and Conflict

Harvey H. Kaiser

Kaiser examines the city-building process from the time when a proposal for urban development is first conceived to the early stages of construction.

"Almost every age and civilization has had a fascination with new citiies. . . . Kaiser shows that such endeavors are not without significant conflict involving citizens, developers, and government officials. The story is not yet over, but this description of the developmental processes will interest both citizen and official."—Library Journal

New York City, 1664–1710

Conquest and Change

Thomas J. Archdeacon

Integrating sophisticated demographic techniques with clearly written narrative, this pioneering book explores the complex social and economic life of a major colonial city.

"New York City, 1664–1710 is important for a variety of reasons. This is ethnic history with a difference. Archdeacon traces the discomfiture of the Dutch confronted with the English conquest of 1664. He reveals how the English immigrants and later their allies, the Huguenots, came to dominate the trade of a city grown to about six thousand people by 1710, its offices of local government, and its best residential areas. This process is examined against what was for the original... cont'd

The 100 Most Notable Cornellians

Glenn Altschuler, Laurence Moore, Isaac Kramnick

"Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the Ivy League. . . . It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who founded an institution 'where any one person could find instruction in any study.' . . . Cornell has played a...

Alone Together

A History of New York's Early Apartments

Elizabeth Collins Cromley

Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new—and somewhat suspect—architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of...

The Angola Horror

The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads

Charity Vogel

In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the 1867 train wreck in Angola, New York, and the characters involved in the tragic accident.

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Isaac Phillips Roberts

This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a...

Barns of New York

Rural Architecture of the Empire State

Cynthia G. Falk

Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State, providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York and an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts.

Becoming American, Being Indian

An Immigrant Community in New York City

Madhulika S. Khandelwal

Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed—the highly educated professional elite who came to this...

Becoming German

The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York

Philip Otterness

Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty...

Between Two Nations

The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City

Michael Jones-Correa

Immigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek...

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