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Description edit
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the... read more
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People edit
- Andrew Hamilton: A Scottish lawyer.
- Clinton: Add a description of this character.
- Harper
- Henry George
- Bennett
- Whitman
- Roosevelt
- Kieft
- Horace Greeley: Founder of the Liberal Republican Party.
- Gould
- Wood
- Hughes
- Howe
- J. P. Morgan: An American financier.
- William
- John Pintard
- Lincoln
- Jackson
- Leisler
- Livingston
- Mcdougall
- Arthur Tappan
- John Jacob Astor
- Riis
- Fletcher
- Peter Cooper
- Edison
- Comstock
- Stanton
- Burr
- Jefferson
- A. T. Stewart
- John Jay
- Anthony
- Beecher
- Brown
- Barnum
- Smith
- Wright
- Duane
- Green
- Ruggles
- Mcdowall
- Morris
- Hudson
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- United States
- London
- Stuyvesant
- East River
- America
- New England
- New Amsterdam
- Washington
- Tammany
- Wall Street
- City Hall Park
- Europe
- Philadelphia
- Long Island
- France
- New Jersey
- West India Company
- Albany
- New Netherland
- Britain
- Paris
- Staten Island
- Boston
- Harlem
- West Indies
- Connecticut
- Vanderbilt
- Ireland
- Belmont
- Atlantic
- China
- Bowery
- Jamaica
- Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- Westchester
- Queens
- Netherlands
- Massachusetts
- Central Park
- Caribbean
- Spain
First Sentence edit
O this is Eden!" exulted the Dutch poet Jacob Steendam.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Edwin G. Burrows (Author)
- Mike Wallace (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0195116348
Page Count: 1416
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0195116348
Page Count: 1416
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1999: History)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 974.71
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › New York
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