Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America / Russell Shorto.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]Description: xii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
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- unmediated
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- 9780393881165
- 0393881164
- Extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
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- F128.4 .S56 2025
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: The view from the mountaintop -- Part one: Squaring off. The invader -- The defender -- Enemy waters -- Stuyvesant's error -- Part two: Settlement and exile. Rabbits on an anthill -- The trailblazer -- The exile -- Dorothea Angola -- Restoration London -- Part three: A game of chess. Doppelganger -- Gravesend -- The alchemist -- The delegation -- The effusion of Christian blood -- White flag -- "The town of Manhatans" -- Part four: The invention. Remaining English -- Merger -- Going Dutch -- The mystery.
"Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York's origins--boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement--reflects America's promise and failure to this day"--