02455nam a22003257a 4500 269839 269839 pucpr 20190612101528.0 170227s20172018nyua ib 000 0 eng 9780195116359 hardback : acidfree paper pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda pcc n-us-ny CARIBET F128.5 W227 2018 974.7/104 23 Wallace, Mike, 1942- Greater Gotham : a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 / Mike Wallace. txt New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 xi, 1182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. book text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 296428 Gotham series Greater Gotham: a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919 2 Include index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 1073-1118) "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. New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951. Burrows, Edwin G., 1943- Gotham. lcc 6 F128.5 General W227 2018 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2018-02-09 Amazon 30.80 0 General F128.5 W227 2018 91000000055004 2018-03-20 00:00:00 1 40.80 2018-02-09 6