Gotham : A History of New York City To 1898.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: LENAPE COUNTRY AND NEW AMSTERDAM TO 1664 -- 1. First Impressions: The physical setting. From Ice Age to Indian ecosystems. European exploration of the lower Hudson Valley in the sixteenth century. -- 2. The Men Who Bought Manhattan: Holland breaks with Spain. The Dutch West India Company, the fur trade, and the founding of New Amsterdam in 1626. -- 3. Company Town: New Amsterdam's first twenty years. Race, sex, and trouble with the English. Kieft's War against the Indians. -- 4. Stuyvesant: Peter Stuyvesant to the rescue. Law and order. Slavery and the slave trade. Expansion of settlement on Manhattan and Long Island. -- 5. A City Lost, a City Gained: Local disaffection with Stuyvesant's rule and the organization of municipal government. Stuyvesant's conflict with Jews, Lutherans, and Quakers. Anglo-Dutch war and the English conquest of 1664. -- PART TWO: BRITISH NEW YORK (1664-1783) -- 6. Empire and Oligarchy: The persistence of Dutch law and folkways under the duke of York's lenient proprietorship. Slow economic and demographic expansion. The Dutch briefly recapture the city. -- 7. Jacob Leisler's Rebellion: Taut times in the 1680s. Protestants and Catholics, English and Dutch, new grandees and disaffected commoners. Leisler's uprising as Dutch last stand and "people's Revolucion. -- 8. Heats and Animosityes: The English anglicize New York: church and state, docks and lots, scavengers and constables, Stadthuis to City Hall. Privateering, piracy, and Captain Kidd. Domestic politics and international conflict through Queen Anne's War (1715). -- 9. In the Kingdom of Sugar: The West Indian connection: white gold, black slaves, yellow fever. The town that trade built: shipyards and refineries, barristers and Jack Tars. Germans and Irish, Catholics and Jews.

10. One Body Corporate and Politic?: A new charter establishes the colonial city as self-governing corporation. Rules and regulations for dealing with disobedient servants, rebellious slaves, the disorderly poor. -- 11. Recession, Revival, and Rebellion: Trade slump. The Zenger affair, religious revivals, and the "Negro Conspiracy" of 1741. -- 12. War and Wealth: Imperial wars in the 1740s and 1750s as route to riches: provisioners and privateers. Empire and industry. Refined patrician precincts, artisanal wards, municipal improvements. -- 13. Crises: Peace and depression. Hardship after 1763. The British crackdown and local resistance. The Sons of Liberty and Stamp Act rioters. A temporary victory. -- 14. The Demon of Discord: Renewed imperial extractions. Revived opposition to Great Britian, 7766-7775. Popular politics and religion. Whigs and Tories. -- 15. Revolution: Radical patriots take control of the city, 1775-1776. The Battle of Long Island. New York falls to the British. -- 16. The Gibraltar of North America: The military occupation of New York City, 1776-1783. Washington's triumphal return. -- PART THREE: MERCANTILE TOWN (1783-1843) -- 17. Phoenix: Rebuilding the war-ravaged city. The radical whigs take power. New New Yorkers. The Empress of China. -- 18. The Revolution Settlement: Hamilton negotiates a rapprochement between radical and conservative whigs, securing the revolution. Daughters of Liberty, the reconstruction of slavery. -- 19. The Grand Federal Procession: Adoption and ratification of the Constitution. The great parade of July 1788. Washington's Inauguration in 1789. -- 20. Capital City: New York as seat of the national government, 1789-1790. Hamilton, Duer, and the "moneyed men." From capital city to city of capital. First banks, first stock market, first Wall Street crash.

21. Revolutions Foreign and Domestic: Impact of the French Revolution. Party struggles in the 1790s. The election of 1800. Prying open the municipal franchise. The Burr-Hamilton duel. -- 22. Queen of Commerce, Jack of All Trades: The city's explosive growth in the 1790s as local merchants take advantage of war in Europe, westward expansion, and the demand for southern cotton. Transformation of the crafts, the end of slavery. -- 23. The Road to City Hall: Demise of municipal corporation, rise of city government. Attending to civic crises: water, fever, garbage, fire, poverty, crime. A new City Hall. -- 24. Philosophes and Philanthropists: Upper-class life styles in the 1790s and early 1800s. Learned men and cultivated women. Republican benevolence: charity, education, public health, religious instruction. -- 25. From Crowd to Class: Artisan communities. Turmoil in the trades. Infidels, evangelicals, and the advent of Tom Paine. Africans and Irishtown. Charlotte Temple and Mother Carey's bawdyhouse. -- 26. War and Peace: The drift toward a second war with Britain, 1807-1812. Embargo and impressment, destitute Tars and work-relief. Battles over foreign policy. Washington Irving and Diedrich Knickerbocker. The gridding of New York. War: 1812-1815. -- 27. The Canal Era: Postwar doldrums give way to the 1820s boom. Erie Canal, steamboat, packet lines, communication, emporium and financial center. Real estate boom and manufacturing surge. The role of government. -- 28. The Medici of the Republic: Upper-class religion, fashion, domestic arrangements, invention of Christmas, Lafayette returns, Greeks revive, patricians patronize the arts and architecture (Cooper, Cole, et al.). -- 29. Working Quarters: Callithumpian bands, plebeian neighborhoods, women and work, sex and saloons, theater and religion, jumping Jim Crow, ''running wid de machine.

30. Reforms and Revivals: Poverty and pauperism, urban missionaries, schools, reformatories, poorhouses, hospitals, jails. -- 31. The Press of Democracy: Fanny Wrightists, democrats and aristocrats, workers and bosses, birth of the penny press. -- 32. The Destroying Demon of Debauchery: Finney v. Fanny, temperance and Graham crackers, Magdalens and whores. -- 33. White, Green, and Black: Catholics and nativists, drawing the color line, white slaves and smoked Irish, abolitionists and the underground railroad. -- 34. Rail Boom: Railroads, manufacturing, real estate, stock market, housing high and low. Brooklyn: the Second City. Good times, pleasure gardens. -- 35. Filth, Fever, Water, Fire: Garbage, cholera, Croton, and the Great Blaze. -- 36. The Panic of 1837: Labor wars, equal rights, flour riot. The boom collapses, whys and wherefores. -- 37. Hard Times: Life in depression. Battles over relief and the role of government. Revivals and Romanism. Gangs, police, and P. T. Barnum. -- PART FOUR: EMPORIUM AND MANUFACTURING CITY (1844-1879) -- 38. Full Steam Ahead: The great boom of the 1840s and 1850s: immigration, foreign trade, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and finance. The Crystal Palace and the Marble Palace. -- 39. Manhattan, Ink: New York as national media center: telegraph, newspapers, books, writers, art market, photography. -- 40. Seeing New York: Flaneuring the city. Crowds and civilization. Lights and shadows. Mysteries and histories. Poe, Melville, Whitman, and the city as literary subject. -- 41. Life Above Bleecker: The new bourgeoise repairs to its squares. Uppertendom opulence and middle-class respectability. Sex, feminism, baseball, religion, and death.

42. City of Immigrants: New immigrant and working-class neighborhoods in the 1840s and 1850s. Irish and Germans at work and play. Jews and Catholics. B'hoys and boxing. The underworld and the world of Mose. -- 43. Co-op City: Plebeian opposition to the new urban order: the Astor Riot, land reform, co-ops, nativism, red republicanism, unionism. -- 44. Into the Crazy-Loved Dens of Death: Upper- and middle-class reformers debate laissez-faire and environmentalism. Welfare, education, health, housing, recreation. Central Park. -- 45. Feme Decovert: The homosocial city. Female discontents and feminist demands. Prostitution exposed. Abortion defended. Free love and fashion. Jenny Lind and commercial culture. -- 46. Louis Napoleon and Fernando Wood: Eyeing Haussmann 's Paris. Citybuilding, Tammany style. Municipal politics indicted. Mayor Wood as civic hero. The loss of home rule. Police riots and Dead Rabbits. -- 47. The Panic of 1857: The boom falters. New Yorkers divide over how to deal with hard times. -- 48. The House Divides: Sectional and racial antagonisms. Republicans, blacks, the struggle for civil rights. John Brown's body. -- 49. Civil Wars: The city's mercantile elite first backs the South, then swings into the Union camp. B'hoys, g'hals, and reformers to war. New York's role in financing and supplying the war effort forges the Shoddy Aristocracy. Carnage and class. -- 50. The Battle for New York: The politics of Emancipation and death. The Draft Riots. The plot to burn New York. -- 51. Westward, Ho!: The merchant community, its historic ties to the South ruptured, turns westward. Railroading sustains boom into the late 1860s and 1870s. Wall Street and the West. The West and Wall Street. -- 52. Reconstructing New York: Radical Republicans seek to reform housing, health, and firefighting and to win the black franchise.

53. City Building: Boss Tweed builds roads, bridges, sewers, rapid transit, and parks. Urban expansion: upper Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Rapid transit and Brooklyn Bridge. Downtown business districts: finance, rails, communication, Ladies' Mile, and the Radio.

In Gotham, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation.

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