An Illustrated History of the New World
Author | : John Ledyard Denison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : North America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Ledyard Denison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ric Burns |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 849 |
Release | : 2021-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 059353414X |
An expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York—with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations—that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city from its beginning in 1624 up to the current moment. The companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series. This landmark book traces the spectacular growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a worldwide symbol of resilience in the 21st century. The story continues here with new chapters delivering a sweeping portrait of New York at the dawn of the 21st century, when it emerged after decades of decline to assert its place at the very center of a new globalized culture. Here is a city challenged—indeed, sometimes shaken to its core—by a series of profound crises: the aftermath of 9/11, the continual struggle with racial injustice, the financial crisis of 2008, the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, the still unfolding cataclysm of the COVID-19 pandemic—whose earliest and deadliest urban epicenter was New York itself. Here too is a lively portrait of the city’s vibrant street life and culture: the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates in Central Park, the musicals of Broadway, the explosion in location filmmaking in every borough, the pivotal rise of the tech industry, and so much more. The history of this city—especially in the tumultuous and transformative two decades detailed in the new chapters—is an epic story of rebirth and growth, an astonishing transfiguration, still in progress, of the world’s first modern city into a model and prototype for the global city of the future.
Author | : Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191067202 |
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can ́t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
Author | : McRae Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Chronology, Historical |
ISBN | : 9788888166117 |
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : David & Charles |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780715321027 |
A comprehensively illustrated account of the six-year-global conflict that transformed world politics and shaped the course of modern history.
Author | : John Ledyard Denison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 0198743122 |
Originally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.
Author | : John Ledyard 1826-1906 Denison |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781372112447 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : John Keegan |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 037541259X |
Illustrates life on the home front, important battles, war from the perspective of generals and soldiers, the collapse of empires, and glimpses of World War II through photographs, paintings, cartoons, and posters.
Author | : John Ledyard Denison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : North America |
ISBN | : |