Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781350185944 |
ISBN10: | 1350185949 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 296 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 508 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 16pp bw plates, 1 map |
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Category:
Economics
Modernism, postmodernism
Cultural history
History of America
Further readings in History
Travel literature
Economics (charity campaign)
Modernism, postmodernism (charity campaign)
Cultural history (charity campaign)
History of America (charity campaign)
Further readings in History (charity campaign)
Travel literature (charity campaign)
Gotham Rising
New York in the 1930s
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 10 December 2020
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Long description:
Often described as the greatest city in the world, New York is one of the iconic cities of the world. Yet much of its architecture and culture which so defines the city we know today only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city's 400 year history.
Jules Stewart shows how, after the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression, New York rose from the ashes and underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. At the same time, a cultural revolution was underway as the jazz age and the Harlem Renaissance took hold. From the Empire State Building to the Pastrami Sandwich and the Cotton Club, Gotham Rising tells the story of when the city we know today came of age.
Jules Stewart shows how, after the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression, New York rose from the ashes and underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. At the same time, a cultural revolution was underway as the jazz age and the Harlem Renaissance took hold. From the Empire State Building to the Pastrami Sandwich and the Cotton Club, Gotham Rising tells the story of when the city we know today came of age.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Amor Towles
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2. The Little Flower and Goliath
3. Trouble in the streets
4. 'I Can't Figger What Dis City is Comin' To'
5. All That Jazz
6. Gotham Gets a Facelift
7. The Thing about Skyscrapers
8. Seventy-Seventh Floor, Please
9. Anything You Can Do
10. You're the Top
11. They All Laughed at Rockefeller Center
12. Village Life
13. Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Foreword by Amor Towles
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2. The Little Flower and Goliath
3. Trouble in the streets
4. 'I Can't Figger What Dis City is Comin' To'
5. All That Jazz
6. Gotham Gets a Facelift
7. The Thing about Skyscrapers
8. Seventy-Seventh Floor, Please
9. Anything You Can Do
10. You're the Top
11. They All Laughed at Rockefeller Center
12. Village Life
13. Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Notes
Bibliography
Index