Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195382372ISBN-10:195382374UPC:9780195382372Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:North American, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.50 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCBY9PE951
Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York
Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. On a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though accustomed to blazes in a town with so many wooden structures, a spotty water supply, and a decentralized fire department, looked on in horror at the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195382372ISBN-10:195382374UPC:9780195382372Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:North American, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.50 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCBY9PE951
Daniel S. Levy is a senior writer for Life Books, which is part of Dotdash Meredith Premium Publishing. He has written on such topics as World War I, Anne Frank, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Civil War, Robert F. Kennedy and the Women of the Bible. Prior to that he was a senior reporter at Time magazine where he covered architecture and classical music, and a reporter at People...
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