Jeffrey A Kroessler

Rural County, Urban Borough

A History of Queens

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how, in less than 100 years, Queens transformed from an agricultural hinterland to a vital urban corridor. This richly illustrated, vital work of history charts the rapid transformation of the Queens landscape and identifies what drove the borough’s development.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978837812
• ISBN-10: 197883781X
• Artikelnr.: 71874639

Autorenporträt

JEFFREY A. KROESSLER (1952–2023) was a professor at the Lloyd Sealy Library of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. His many books include Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb, New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis, and Historic Preservation in Queens.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Rural County
Chapter 1: Queens Under the Dutch and the English
Chapter 2: The Rural Landscape
Chapter 3: The Railroad and Long Island
Chapter 4: The Verdant Suburbs
Chapter 5: The Noxious Industries
Chapter 6: The Leisure Landscape
Part II: Urban Borough
Chapter 7: The Politics of Consolidation
Chapter 8: The Queensboro Bridge
Chapter 9: The Booming Borough
Chapter 10: The Crisis of the Great Depression
Chapter 11: Building the World of Tomorrow
Chapter 12: Prosperity and Stability in PostWar Queens
Chapter 13: The Most Diverse Place on the Planet
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index