02333nam a22002897a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020004600064040003400110042000800144043001200152050002200164082001800186100002600204245008900230264005100319300005200370336002600422337002800448338002700476440008300503500001900586504005900605520129900664651004101963700003902004pucpr20190612101528.0170227s20172018nyua     ib   000 0 eng    a9780195116359 qhardback : acidfree paper  apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda  apcc  an-us-ny00aF128.5bW227 201800a974.7/1042231 aWallace, Mike,d1942-10aGreater Gotham :ba history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 /cMike Wallace.htxt 1aNew York, NY :bOxford University Press,c2017  axi, 1182 pages :billustrations ;c26 cm.fbook  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aGotham seriespGreater Gotham: a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919v2  aInclude index.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 1073-1118) 2 a"In Greater Gotham Mike Wallace, co-author of GOTHAM, picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large--and largely fueling it. The names of two its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence: Wall Street and Broadway. Greater Gotham reveals the workings of the city's consolidation; the emerging hegemony of its financial markets, which effectively reconstructed U.S. capitalism; the influx of migrants from other continents and from the American South; the development of its massive infrastructure--subways and waterways and electrical grid; and New York's growing dominance over the arts, media, and entertainment. It captures and illuminates the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom, to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, to the labor upheavals and repressions during and after the World War One. By 1920, New York was the second-largest city in the world and arguably its new capital"--Provided by publisher. 0aNew York (N.Y.)xHistoryy1898-1951.1 aBurrows, Edwin G.,d1943-tGotham.