A History of New York

François Weil

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Paper, 256 pages, 59 photos and maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-12935-0
$24.95 / £16.95

July, 2004
Cloth, 256 pages, 59 photos and maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-12934-3
$73.50 / £50.50

Foreword

I The Province 1620-1820

1. The Ocean

2. The Commencement of a Town

II Queen of the New World 1820-1890

3. The Venice of the Atlantic

4. The Empire City

5. Manhattan

III Metropolitan Modernities 1890-1940

6. Greater New York

7. The Promised City?

8. The Lights of the City

IV Capital of the American Century 1940-2000

9. The Phoenix

10. New York, New York!

Related Subjects

• American History
• New York City
• Urban History

Series

• Columbia History of Urban Life

About the Author

François Weil is directeur d'études and director of the Center for North American Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has taught at the Universities of Michigan and Virginia, and in 2003 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University. He is the author of Les Franco-Américains, 1860–1980 and Naissance de l’Amérique Urbaine, 1820–1920.Jody Gladding's many translations include The Devil's Cloth (Columbia) by Michel Pastoureau and Time Passing (Columbia) by Sylviane Agacinski. She is a poet and the author of Stone Crop.

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