Brooklyn!
Subtitle: An Illustrated History (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: August 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781566394086
Subjects: Cultural studies; Local history; Urban communities; Pictorial works; New York - Local History; Social History; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - General; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
Description: Brooklyn's unique character grows out of a rich and colorful history, a complex tapestry of developing neighborhoods, striving immigrants, melding - sometimes clashing - cultures, booming and stagnating economic cycles. Guiding us into this historical panorama through five larger-than-life points of entry, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier highlights the people, events, and places that have made Brooklyn, Brooklyn.

Lavishly illustrated with prints, paintings, memorabilia, and objects from The Brooklyn Historical Society's unparalleled collection, Brooklyn! will bring every reader closer to the Brooklyn of legend and fact.