| Contents |
Introduction : City of desire -- The country and the city, 1609-1825 -- Alexander Hamilton, the New Yorker with a national vision / by Carol Berkin -- Order and disorder, 1825-1865 -- "The locomotive of these United States" / by Mike Wallace -- Sunshine and shadow, 1865-1898 -- The secrets of the great city / by Daniel Czitrom -- The power and the people, 1898-1919 -- Where the modern world took shape, 1898-1929 / by Kenneth T. Jackson -- Cosmopolis, 1919-1931 -- Harlem renaissance / interview with David Levering Lewis -- Cosmopolitan capital : New York in the 1920s / interview with Robert A. M. Stern -- The city of tomorrow, 1931-1939 -- Robert Moses : the power broker / interview with Robert A. Caro -- The city and the world, 1939-1969 -- The lonely crowd : New York after the war / by Marshall Berman -- Trauma, apocalypse, boom, aftermath : New York City in the last twenty-five years / by Phillip Lopate -- City of the millenium -- Epilogue : The center of the world. |
