Manhattan Phoenix : the Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York.
The Great Fire of 1835 nearly leveled Manhattan-consuming some 700 buildings-yet also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after 1835 and in the years up to and through the Civil War, as it evolved from a chaotic jumble of comp...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 1825-1835: "One of the Greatest Commercial Towns in the World"
- 1. Ten Hours
- 2. "Like a Phoenix from Her Ashes"
- 3. Overturning Manhattan
- 4. "I Would Buy Every Foot of Land on the Island of Manhattan"
- 5. London on the Hudson
- 6. The City and the Arts
- 7. Panic and Promise
- 8. Covering the Waterfront
- 9. Quenching a City's Thirst
- 10. The Croton River Flows into the City
- 11. The Power of the Fire Engines
- 12. Firemen and Politics
- 13. Corporation Pudding and Death
- 14. "A Burial Can Scarcely Take Place without Disturbing a Previous One"
- 15. A Southern City in the North
- 16. The Search for Freedom
- 17. Creating Breathing Space
- 18. A Rural Retreat in the Gridded City
- 19. A Melting Pot Boils Over
- 20. An Ungovernable Metropolis
- 21. The Approaching Storm
- 22. Maelstrom
- 23. Ending the Deadly Embrace
- Coda: The Phoenix Takes Flight
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index.