Main entry:

Burns, Ric, author.

Title & Author:

New York : an illustrated history / narrative by Ric Burns and James Sanders ; picture editor Lisa Ades.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1999]
© 1999

Description:

xv, 575 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Based on "New York : a documentary film" directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ..."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 556-560) and index.
Introduction : City of desire -- The country and the city, 1609-1825 -- Alexander Hamilton, the New Yorker with a national vision / Carol Berkin -- Order and disorder, 1825-1865 -- "The locomotive of these United States" / Mike Wallace -- Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 -- The secrets of the great city / Daniel Czitrom -- The power and the people, 1898-1919 -- Where the modern world took shape, 1898-1929 / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 -- Harlem renaissance / interview with David Levering Lewis -- Cosmopolitan capital : New York in the 1920s / interview with Robert A.M. Stern -- The city of tomorrow, 1931-1939 -- Robert Moses : the power broker / interview with Robert A. Caro -- The city and the world, 1939-1969 -- The lonely crowd : New York after the war / Marshall Berman -- Trauma, apocalypse, boom, aftermath : New York City in the last twenty-five years / Phillip Lopate -- Epilogue : City of the millennium.

Summary:

A companion volume to the PBS television series.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
link

ISBN:

0679454829 (alk. paper)
9780679454823 (alk. paper)
0375709681
9780375709685

Subject:

NEW YORK (N.Y.) HISTORY.
NEW YORK (N.Y.) HISTORY PICTORIAL WORKS.
New York (N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) History Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Sanders, James, 1955- author
Ades, Lisa, picture editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209029
Call No.: F128.3 .N5 1999
Status: Available