Harlem
Subtitle: the four hundred year history from Dutch village to capital of Black America
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780802119100
Description: Presents a history of the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, beginning with Hudson's first experiences in the area, through its early growth as a Dutch village and colonial agricultural center, to its transformation into an iconic modern neighborhood.
Table of contents: title: Unrighteous beginnings: from Muscoota to Nieuw Haarlem, 1609-1664; title: Strange bedfellows: British Harlem, 1664-1781; title: Sweet asylum: founding an American Harlem, 1781-1811; title: The future is uptown, 1811-1863; title: The flash age, 1863-1898; title: Nostra Harlem, undzere Harlem: the age of immigration; title: "To race with the world": the new Negro and the Harlem Renaissance; title: "The kingdom of culture": Harlem's Renaissance comes of age; title: "Moon over Harlem": the Great Depression uptown, 1929-1943; title: "Tempus fugue-it": Harlem in the Civil Rights Era, 1943-1965; title: Harlem nightmare, 1965-1990; title: Old and new dreams: reviving the Renaissance