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Good Nonfiction about New York City

Beschrijving: However you define a good book, if it's nonfiction and about New York, New York, it's welcome on this list. Please note that fiction and books about other places, if added to this list, may be down-voted without mercy.

Plaats Titel Auteur Toegevoegd

1

Here is New York

door E. B. White

1,041 leden

19 besprekingen

4.2

3 Members: lilithcat, MikeBriggs, ladyand24

2

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America

door David Von Drehle

1,214 leden

34 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: lilithcat, kageeh, AnnaClaire

3

Apple of My Eye

door Helene Hanff

341 leden

17 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: lilithcat, Chatterbox, ladyand24

4

The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution

door Barnet Schecter

247 leden

2 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: AnnaClaire, ladyand24

5

Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis

door Kevin Walsh

202 leden

1 bespreking

4.2

2 Members: AnnaClaire, ladyand24

6

Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960

door Ross Wetzsteon

174 leden

1 bespreking

4.1

2 Members: Chatterbox, ladyand24

7

This is New York, Honey!

door Michele Landsberg

19 leden

2 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: Chatterbox, ladyand24

8

American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

door Christine Stansell

205 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 3.4

2 Members: eromsted, Chatterbox

9

The Rise of New York Port (1815-1860)

door Robert Greenhalgh Albion

42 leden

½ 3.5

2 Members: eromsted, ladyand24

10

The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History

door Eric Homberger

591 leden

2 besprekingen

4

2 Members: eromsted, ladyand24

11

De Colossus van New York : een stad in dertien delen

door Colson Whitehead

568 leden

11 besprekingen

½ 3.6

Member: DorsVenabili

12

Gone to New York: Adventures in the City

door Ian Frazier

154 leden

3 besprekingen

3.8

Member: Chatterbox

13

door Richard Berenholtz

72 leden

4

Member: abbottthomas

14

The Assassination of New York

door Robert Fitch

57 leden

5

Member: eromsted

15

The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge

door Michael Daly

46 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

16

The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village {revised}

door Samuel R. Delany

528 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

17

Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

door Sean Wilentz

233 leden

1 bespreking

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

18

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

door Ann Douglas

384 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 3.6

Member: Chatterbox

19

Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels

door Jill Jonnes

336 leden

6 besprekingen

3.8

Member: AnnaClaire

20

Working-Class New York

door Joshua Benjamin Freeman

85 leden

4

Member: eromsted

21

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

door Robert A. Caro

2,921 leden

48 besprekingen

½ 4.6

Member: eromsted

22

The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror

door Beverly Gage

165 leden

6 besprekingen

3.8

Member: AnnaClaire

23

Tompkins Square Park

door Q. Sakamaki

6 leden

Member: eromsted

24

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896

door Sven Beckert

116 leden

1 bespreking

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

25

The Triangle Fire

door Leon Stein

109 leden

1 bespreking

4.2

Member: AnnaClaire

26

Nieuw-Amsterdam de oorsprong van New York

door Russell Shorto

2,246 leden

54 besprekingen

4.1

Member: AnnaClaire

27

New York in the Thirties

door Berenice Abbott

294 leden

4 besprekingen

4.1

Member: Chatterbox

28

Burning New York

door James T. Murray

11 leden

4

Member: eromsted

29

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

door Paul Collins

801 leden

40 besprekingen

½ 3.4

Member: Chatterbox

30

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City

door Debra E. Bernhardt

26 leden

Member: eromsted

31

A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward

door Alana Newhouse

103 leden

1 bespreking

Member: eromsted

32

The Works: Anatomy of a City

door Kate Ascher

796 leden

10 besprekingen

3.9

Member: eromsted

33

From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present

31 leden

1 bespreking

3.8

Member: eromsted

34

East Side - West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50

door Alan A. Block

6 leden

Member: eromsted

35

The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834

door Paul A. Gilje

36 leden

1 bespreking

½ 4.5

Member: eromsted

36

City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States

door Ira Katznelson

41 leden

Member: eromsted

37

Resistance: A Radical Political History of the Lower East Side

door Clayton Patterson

15 leden

Member: eromsted

38

A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York

door Tony Michels

51 leden

1 bespreking

Member: eromsted

39

How the Other Half Lives

door Jacob A. Riis

1,425 leden

9 besprekingen

3.9

Member: eromsted

40

The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City

door Joel Schwartz

9 leden

Member: eromsted

41

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

door Timothy J. Gilfoyle

181 leden

2 besprekingen

4

Member: eromsted

42

The Tenant movement in New York City, 1904-1984

door Ronald Lawson

5 leden

Member: eromsted

43

In transit : the Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966

door Joshua Benjamin Freeman

29 leden

Member: eromsted

44

Tramps and Reformers, 1873-1916: The Discovery of Unemployment in New York (Contributions in American History)

door Paul Ringenbach

3 leden

Member: eromsted

45

Artisans of the New Republic: Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson

door Howard B. Rock

19 leden

Member: eromsted

46

Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York

door Roger Waldinger

19 leden

4

Member: eromsted

47

World of Our Fathers

door Irving Howe

853 leden

10 besprekingen

4.1

Member: eromsted

48

Harlem, Negro metropolis

door Claude McKay

21 leden

3

Member: eromsted

49

"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression

door Cheryl Greenberg

27 leden

3

Member: eromsted

50

Old Bowery days : the chronicles of a famous street

door Alvin F Harlow

13 leden

Member: eromsted

51

Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy

door David Quigley

52 leden

Member: eromsted

52

Sunshine and Shadow in New York

door Matthew Hale Smith

21 leden

Member: eromsted

53

The volcano under the city

door William Osborn] [Stoddard

2 leden

Member: eromsted

54

Lights and shadows of New York life;: Or, The sights and sensations of the great city

door James Dabney McCabe

30 leden

1 bespreking

½ 4.5

Member: eromsted

55

Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810

door Shane White

33 leden

Member: eromsted

56

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

door Jill Lepore

434 leden

5 besprekingen

3.9

Member: eromsted

57

Old New York in Early Photographs

door Mary Black

173 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 4.6

Member: eromsted

58

The City of New York : a history illustrated from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York

door Jerry E. Patterson

27 leden

½ 2.5

Member: eromsted

59

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

door Edwin G. Burrows

1,444 leden

5 besprekingen

4.2

Member: eromsted

60

La Guardia, a fighter against his times

door Arthur Mann

10 leden

Member: eromsted

61

Artisans, evangelicals, and the city : a social history of abolition and labor reform in Jacksonian New York

door John B. Jentz

1 lid

Member: eromsted

62

Jack Tar vs. John Bull: The Role of New York's Seamen in Precipitating the Revolution (Studies in African American History and Culture)

door Jesse Lemisch

6 leden

Member: eromsted

Over deze lijst

Begonnen: AnnaClaire
februari 2012
Soort: Genummerd en ongenummerd

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