The Empire State
Subtitle: A History of New York
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: November 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780801489914
Subjects: American history; Social history; History: American; History; History - U.S.; New York; USA; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; New York (State)
First sentence: WHEN EUROPEANS ARRIVED IN THE REGION EVENTUALLY to be called New York, a complex and elaborate native economy that included hunting, gathering, manufacturing, and farming already existed there.
Table of contents: title: Before the English (1609—1664). Native Americans before the Invasion -- The Dutch stake their claim -- Establishing a Colony -- Peter Stuyvesant and the new immigrants -- Life in New Netherland -- New Netherland’s last years -- The English province (1664—1776) -- From proprietary colony to royal province -- Advancing English culture -- A mixed and enterprising people -- Colonial culture : the sacred and the secular -- Provincial and imperial politics -- The coming of the revolution -- From revolution to statehood (1776—1825) -- “Never a more total revolution” -- “The rights of mankind” -- A new empire -- “A large and valuable canal” -- New York City, New York’s cities -- The empire state and the Albany regency -- Antebellum society and politics (1825—1860). New York modernizes : economic growth and transformation -- Society, religion, and reform -- New York at the crossroads of culture -- From factions to parties : the emergence of the second party system -- Politics and policy -- Politics transformed : slavery, nativism, and the rise of the republican party -- The gilded age (1860—1914) -- New York during the Civil War and reconstruction -- Making sense of mass society -- “Progress” and politics -- The triumph of liberalism (1914—1945) -- Progress under siege -- The electric age -- Public work in the great depression -- War brings a new day -- The empire state in a changing world (1945—2000) -- Top of the world -- Things fall apart -- The long slide -- Uneven recovery -- New York state at the end of the century.