Before Central Park /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Miller, Sara Cedar, author.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
Description:x, 611 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12746872
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780231181945
0231181949
9780231543903
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world's densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds-and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America's first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today"--
Other form:Online version: Miller, Sara Cedar. Before Central Park New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 9780231543903

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 12746872
008 210712s2022 nyuab b 001 0deng
005 20220810145412.5
010 |a  2021027671 
035 9 |a (GOBI)40031237828 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d OCLCO  |d BDX  |d OCLCF  |d ERASA  |d TOH  |d UKMGB  |d OCLCO  |d BKL  |d YDX 
020 |a 9780231181945  |q hardcover 
020 |a 0231181949  |q hardcover 
020 |z 9780231543903  |q electronic book 
035 |a (OCoLC)1251501710 
042 |a pcc 
043 |a n-us-ny 
050 0 0 |a F128.65.C3  |b M54 2022 
082 0 0 |a 974.7/1  |2 23 
100 1 |a Miller, Sara Cedar,  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Before Central Park /  |c Sara Cedar Miller. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Columbia University Press,  |c [2022] 
300 |a x, 611 pages :  |b illustrations (some color), color maps ;  |c 25 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a "With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world's densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds-and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America's first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
651 0 |a Central Park (New York, N.Y.)  |x History. 
651 0 |a New York (N.Y.)  |x History  |y 1775-1865. 
651 0 |a New York (N.Y.)  |x History  |y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 
651 6 |a New York (N.Y.)  |x Histoire  |y 1775-1865.  |0 (CaQQLa)201-0082536 
651 6 |a New York (N.Y.)  |x Histoire  |y ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)  |0 (CaQQLa)201-0082534 
650 7 |a HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)  |2 bisacsh 
651 7 |a New York (State)  |z New York.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204333 
648 7 |a 1600-1865  |2 fast 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Miller, Sara Cedar.  |t Before Central Park  |d New York : Columbia University Press, 2022  |z 9780231543903  |w (DLC) 2021027672 
929 |a cat 
999 f f |s f918540e-675f-4b04-98a6-6b42bfb4d37c  |i 7f18a3a6-5be5-462e-9b92-3f4ba6e84424 
928 |t Library of Congress classification  |a F128.65.C3M54 2022  |l JRL  |c JRL-Gen  |i 12883857 
927 |t Library of Congress classification  |a F128.65.C3M54 2022  |l JRL  |c JRL-Gen  |e HESM  |b 117719190  |i 10409275