Empire City
Subtitle: New York Through the Centuries
Contributors: Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor); David S. Dunbar (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 9780231109093
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; New York; American - General; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: Before 1524, when Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian in the employ of France, became the first known white man to sail into the great harbor where the Hudson river flows into the Atlantic Ocean, the place that would come to be known as New York City had already been inhabited for centuries by Indians of the Algonquin language group.