UID:
edocfu_9959230678602883
Format:
1 online resource (224 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-73532-9
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9786611735326
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0-300-13789-3
Content:
This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it. Generously illustrated and replete with maps, the tours are designed to explore both ancient times and modern space. On these tours, readers will see where archaeologists have discovered evidence of the earliest New Yorkers, the Native Americans who arrived at least 11,000 years ago. They will learn about thousand-year-old trading routes, sacred burial grounds, and seventeenth-century villages. They will also see sites that reveal details of the lives of colonial farmers and merchants, enslaved Africans, Revolutionary War soldiers, and nineteenth-century hotel keepers, grocers, and housewives. Some tours bring readers to popular tourist attractions (the Statue of Liberty and the Wall Street district, for example) and present them in a new light. Others center on places that even the most seasoned New Yorker has never seen-colonial houses, a working farm, out-of-the-way parks, and remote beaches-often providing beautiful and unexpected views from the city's vast shoreline. A celebration of New York City's past and its present, this unique book will intrigue everyone interested in the city and its history.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. The Harbor Islands --
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2. Lower Manhattan: Dutch New Amsterdam, Colonial New York, and the Premier City of the New Nation --
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3. Greenwich Village: At Home in Nineteenth-Century New York --
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4. Northern Manhattan: How the First Archaeologists Uncovered Indian, Colonial, and Revolutionary War New York --
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5. The Bronx Shore with Views of Queens: A Voyage through Thousands of Years of Indian Life along the City's Coast --
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6. The Farms and Towns of Queens County --
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7. The Town of Brooklyn: The Third-Largest City of the Nineteenth-Century Nation --
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8. Southern Brooklyn: Native American and Early New York --
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Bibliographic Sources for Each Tour --
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Bibliography --
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Illustration Credits --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-10388-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300137897
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