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Author : James Hodge Callender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights written by James Hodge Callender and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clay Lancaster
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486238722
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Old Brooklyn Heights written by Clay Lancaster and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Author : Robert Furman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162619954X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Heights written by Robert Furman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York's most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instrumental during the Revolutionary War's Battle of Brooklyn. In the 1830s, steam ferries transformed it into America's first suburb, where abolitionism flourished and one of the largest Civil War Sanitary Fairs was held. Throughout the nineteenth century, wealthy philanthropists and entrepreneurs built high-styled Gothic Revival and Italianate homes and founded many landmark Brooklyn institutions. Though the neighborhood declined with the new century, it became a target of Robert Moses's urban renewal projects in the 1930s. Its designation as the city's first historic district saved Brooklyn Heights, and it has since blossomed into one of the city's most desirable neighborhoods.
Author : Maurice Edwards
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810856660
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book How Music Grew in Brooklyn written by Maurice Edwards and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Brooklyn Philharmonic is one of the most innovative and respected symphony orchestras of modern times. Maurice Edwards provides a personal and comprehensive history of this institution. How Music Grew in Brooklyn includes more than two dozen historical photographs and illustrations and an eighty-page appendix providing detailed listing of the orchestra's programs, including the Marathons."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stuart M. Blumin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501765523
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn written by Stuart M. Blumin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn's domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling of the control they wielded as more ethnically diverse groups moved into the "City of Churches" during the twentieth century. Before it became a prime American example of urban ethnic diversity, Brooklyn was a lovely and salubrious "town across the river" from Manhattan, celebrated for its churches and upright suburban living. But challenges to this way of life issued from the sheer growth of the city, from new secular institutions—department stores, theaters, professional baseball—and from the licit and illicit attractions of Coney Island, all of which were at odds with post-Puritan piety and behavior. Despite these developments, the Yankee-Protestant hegemony largely held until the massive influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants in the twentieth century. As The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn demonstrates, in their churches, synagogues, and other communal institutions, and on their neighborhood streets, the new Brooklynites established the ethnic mosaic that laid the groundwork for the theory of cultural pluralism, giving it a central place within the American Creed.
Author : Henrik Krogius
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841930
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Brooklyn Heights Promenade written by Henrik Krogius and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in films and on television and used as a backdrop to countless photos, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade offers the public a view that is usually reserved for the rich at the top of a tower. From this one-third-mile stretch, locals and tourists take in the Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and New York Harbor. But its history is less harmonious. Plans by the powerful Robert Moses to run the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through a resistant neighborhood led to contention and an unforeseen eventual compromise. In this volume, Brooklyn Heights Press editor Henrik Krogius presents this history, along with his articles that document the fate of the Promenade over the years.
Author : E.A. "Bud" Livingston
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234477
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn and the Civil War written by E.A. "Bud" Livingston and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Manhattan was the site of many important Civil War events, Brooklyn also played an important part in the war. Henry Ward Beecher "auctioned off" slaves at the Plymouth Church, raising the money to free them. Walt Whitman reported news of the war in a Brooklyn paper and wrote some of his most famous works. At the same time, Brooklyn both grappled with and embraced unique challenges, from the arrival of new immigrants to the formation of one of the nation's first baseball teams. Local historian Bud Livingston crafts the portrait of Brooklyn in transition--shaped by the Civil War while also leaving its own mark on the course of the terrible conflict.
Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416547940
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Lincoln at Cooper Union written by Harold Holzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lincoln Prize Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives. Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times -- an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment -- and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas on the question of slavery. Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts a brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.
Author : Suleiman Osman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199930341
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn written by Suleiman Osman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and captivating history of gentrification, this book challenges the conventional wisdom that New York City began a comeback in the 1990s, locating the roots of Brooklyn's revival in the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Osman examines the emergence of a progressive coalition as young, well-educated brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. Deftly mixing architectural, cultural, and political history, this book offers an eye-opening perspective on the post-industrial city.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Municipal Reference Library Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce J. Evensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195162447
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book God's Man for the Gilded Age written by Bruce J. Evensen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of his day--indeed it could be said that Moody invented the system of evangelism that Graham inherited and perfected. Bruce J. Evensen focuses on the pivotal years during which Moody established his reputation on both sides of the Atlantic through a series of highly popular and publicized campaigns. In four short years Moody forged the bond between revivalism and the mass media that persists to this day. Beginning in Britain in 1873 and extending across America's urban landscape, first in Brooklyn and then in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Boston, Moody used the power of prayer and publicity to stage citywide crusades that became civic spectacles. Modern newspapers, in the grip of economic depression, needed a story to stimulate circulation and found it in Moody's momentous mission. The evangelist and the press used one another in creating a sense of civic excitement that manufactured the largest crowds in municipal history. Critics claimed this machinery of revival was man-made. Moody's view was that he'd rather advertise than preach to empty pews. He brought a businessman's common sense to revival work and became, much against his will, a celebrity evangelist. The press in city after city made him the star of the show and helped transform his religious stage into a communal entertainment of unprecedented proportions. In chronicling Moody's use of the press and their use of him, Evensen sheds new light on a crucial chapter in the history of evangelicalism and demonstrates how popular religion helped form our modern media culture.
Author : Edward Pessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492934
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Riches, Class, and Power written by Edward Pessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.
Author : Pratt Institute. Free Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Quarterly Booklist written by Pratt Institute. Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pratt Institute. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Co-operative Bulletin written by Pratt Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Constitution and By-laws; Vol. 1, 1901 written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
