The Encyclopedia of New York City by Jackson, Kenneth T.

The Encyclopedia of New York City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300114652)

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The Encyclopedia of New York City by Jackson, Kenneth T.

The Encyclopedia of New York City

$65.00
The Encyclopedia of New York City by Jackson, Kenneth T.

The Encyclopedia of New York City

$65.00
Format: Hardcover
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A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled

Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published.

But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman became an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration--Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side--has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded.

The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries--spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more--have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades.

The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York Cityconvey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.



Author: Kenneth T. Jackson
ISBN-10: 0300114656
ISBN-13: 9780300114652
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2010
Pages: 1584
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 7.52lbs
Size: 11.06h x 8.70w x 2.33d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2011 pg. 96
Booklist 05/01/2011 pg. 100
Choice 06/01/2011
By Kenneth T. Jackson
By Kenneth T. Jackson
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Kenneth T. Jackson is the Jacques Barzun Professor of History at Columbia University, where he has chaired the Department of History. The author of the prize-winning Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, he has taught New York City history for four decades. He is general editor of the Columbia History of Urban Life and a former president of the Urban History Association, the Society of American Historians, the Organization of American Historians, and the New-York Historical Society.

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