Displaying 1 of 1 2025 Format: Book Author: Shorto, Russell, author. Title: Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America / Russell Shorto. Other Title: Extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025] ©2025 Description: xii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Summary: The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York--that brash, bold, archetypal city--came to be. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-371) and index. Contents: Prologue: The view from the mountaintop -- Part one: Squaring off. The invader -- The defender -- Enemy waters -- Stuyvesant's error -- Part two: Settlement and exile. Rabbits on an anthill -- The trailblazer -- The exile -- Dorothea Angola -- Restoration London -- Part three: A game of chess. Doppelganger -- Gravesend -- The alchemist -- The delegation -- The effusion of Christian blood -- White flag -- "The town of Manhatans" -- Part four: The invention. Remaining English -- Merger -- Going Dutch -- The mystery. Subjects: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History. New York (N.Y.) -- History. ISBN: 9780393881165 (hardcover) 0393881164 (hardcover) Control Number: 2268869 Local Availability (physical copies):1 (of 1) System Availability (physical copies):17 (of 47) Place Request Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Map It Large Cover Image Availability MARC Record Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
