Table of contents:
1. Introduction
2. City of The Whirlpool: 1626-1799
3. Gotham: The Paradoxes of the Early National and Jacksonian City: 1800-1840
4. The Proud and Passionate City: 1840-1865
5. The Empire City: 1865-1899: Questioning the Gilded Age
6. The City of Ambition: Progressivism on Trial, 1900-1919
7. The Big Apple: Pursuing the Dream, 1920-1945
8. World City: Redefining Gotham, 1945-1969
9. The Big Apple Redux: Leadership Under Fire, 1970-1993
10. Shock City and the Supermayor: 1993-2001
New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. The Restless City is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city.
Organized around conventional time periods, each chapter provides an introduction to the era, followed by four or five mini-essays on different economic, political, social, or cultural conflicts that impacted NYC in that time period. This would make a great short text for a course on New York history, or on urban history and the development of the American city.
1. Introduction
2. City of The Whirlpool: 1626-1799
3. Gotham: The Paradoxes of the Early National and Jacksonian City: 1800-1840
4. The Proud and Passionate City: 1840-1865
5. The Empire City: 1865-1899: Questioning the Gilded Age
6. The City of Ambition: Progressivism on Trial, 1900-1919
7. The Big Apple: Pursuing the Dream, 1920-1945
8. World City: Redefining Gotham, 1945-1969
9. The Big Apple Redux: Leadership Under Fire, 1970-1993
10. Shock City and the Supermayor: 1993-2001
New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. The Restless City is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city.
Organized around conventional time periods, each chapter provides an introduction to the era, followed by four or five mini-essays on different economic, political, social, or cultural conflicts that impacted NYC in that time period. This would make a great short text for a course on New York history, or on urban history and the development of the American city.