The definitive pictorial history of the diverse peoples of the world who have made New York their home. According to the 1990 census, New York, for the first time in a century, had more foreign-born inhabitants than native-born residents. A city of continual immigration, New York's people have been documented by major artists and photographers from the earliest European settlers to the present. In this majestic illustrated history, with over 500 prints, paintings, and photographs, many never before published, we see the arrival of the first wave of Dutch and Anglo-Saxon settlers in the seventeenth century. We progress through Irish and German immigrations in the mid-nineteenth century, the immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of vast numbers of Italians and Eastern European Jews as well as Greeks and Slavs, followed by African Americans moving from the South after World War I. Finally, as the twentieth century comes to a close, Caribbeans, Latinos, Africans, and Asians have become the dominant new New Yorkers. As he did with Harlem on My Mind, The Lower East Side, American Jewish Album, and The Italian Americans, Allon Schoener has brought together wonderful images as well as documentary accounts from diaries, letters, news articles, and other sources, giving us the rich history and texture of this great city. Over 500 prints, paintings, and photographs
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9780393045819
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94867413
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Citizenship
Author
Allon Schoener
Publication Name
New York: an Illustrated History of the People
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Transportation, History
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Item Height
290mm
Item Width
264mm
Item Weight
2439g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Allon Schoener
Topic
People
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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