TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shorto,Russell
TI  - Taking Manhattan: the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America 
SN  - 9780393881165
AV  - F128.4 .S56 2025
U1  - 974.7/102 23
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Colonial period, ca.  1600-1775
KW  - New York, N.Y
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Informational works
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -