Designing Gotham : West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898 /

"Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. With this rapid commercial growth and cultural development, New York came to epitomize a nineteenth-century metropolis. Although this important urban transformation...

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Autor principal: Logel, Jon Scott, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States Military Academy.
United States. > Army.
États-Unis. > Army > Biographies.
United States. > Army > Biography.
United States Military Academy > Biography.
Social change.
Military cadets.
Civil engineers.
Civil engineering.
City planning.
Cadets (Forces armees) > New York (État) > West Point > Biographies.
Ingenieurs civils > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Military cadets > New York (State) > West Point > Biography.
Civil engineers > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Social change > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Civil engineering > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
City planning > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
United States.
New York (State) > West Point.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1775-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chronology
  • Introduction. Nineteenth-century New York and West Point
  • West Point influence in Victorian Gotham
  • An American ecole polytechnique
  • The academy of Thayer and Mahan
  • Engineering professionals in New York : a new American identity
  • Egbert L. Viele's New York
  • Toward consolidation : bridges, bosses, and Brooklyn
  • Redemption in postbellum Gotham
  • The emergence of modern America in West Point's New York.

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