Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1]
16. The Gibraltar of North America The military occupation of New York City, 1776-1783. Washington’s triumphal return.
PART THREE MERCANTILE TOWN (1783-1843)
17. Phoenix Rebuilding the war-ravaged city. The radical whigs take power. New New Yorkers. The Empress of China.
18. The Revolution Settlement Hamilton negotiates a rapprochement betweenradical and conservative whigs, securing the revolution. Daughters of Liberty, the reconstruction of slavery.
19. The Grand Federal Procession Adoption and ratification of the Constitution. The great parade of July 1788. Washington’s Inauguration in 1789.
20. Capital City New York as seat of the national government, 1789-1790. Hamilton, Duer, and the “moneyed men.” From capital city to city of capital. First banks, first stock market, first Wall Street crash.
21. Revolutions Foreign and Domestic Impact of the French Revolution. Party struggles in the 1790s. The election of 1800. Prying open the municipal franchise. The Burr-Hamilton duel.
22. Queen of Commerce, Jack of All Trades The city’s explosive growth in the 1790s as local merchants take advantage of war in Europe, westward expansion, and the demand for southern cotton. Transformation of the crafts, the end of slavery.
23. The Road to City Hall Demise of municipal corporation, rise of city government. Attending to civic crises: water, fever, garbage, fire, poverty, crime. A new City Hall.
24. Philosophes and Philanthropists Upper-class life styles in the 1790s and early 1800s. Learned men and cultivated women. Republican benevolence: charity, education, public health, religious instruction.
25. From Crowd to Class Artisan communities. Turmoil in the trades. Infidels, evangelicals, and the advent of Tom Paine. Africans and Irishtown. Charlotte Temple and Mother Carey’s bawdy house.
26. War and Peace The drift toward a second war with Britain, 1807-1812. Embargo and impressment, destitute Tars and work-relief. Battles over foreign policy. Washington Irving and Diedrich Knickerbocker. Thegridding of New York. War: 1812-1815.
27. The Canal Era Postwar doldrums give way to the 1820s boom. Erie Canal, steamboat, packet lines, communication, emporium and financial center. Real estate boom and manufacturing surge. The role of government.
28. The Medici of the Republic Upper-class religion, fashion, domesticarrangements, invention of Christmas, Lafayette returns, Greeks revive, patricians patronize the arts and architecture (Cooper, Cole, et al.).
29. Working Quarters Callithumpian bands, plebeian neighborhoods, women and work, sex and saloons, theater and religion, jumping Jim Crow, “running wid de machine.”
30. Reforms and Revivals Poverty and pauperism, urban missionaries, schools, reformatories, poorhouses, hospitals, jails.
31. The Press of Democracy Fanny Wrightists, democrats and aristocrats, workers and bosses, birth of the penny press.
32. The Destroying Demon of Debauchery Finney v. Fanny, temperance and Graham crackers, Magdalens and whores.
33. White, Green, and Black Catholics and nativists, drawing the color line, white slaves and smoked Irish, abolitionists and the underground railroad.
34. Rail Boom Railroads, manufacturing, real estate, stock market, housing high and low. Brooklyn: the Second City. Good times, pleasure gardens.
35. Filth, Fever, Water, Fire Garbage, cholera, Croton, and the Great Blaze.
36. The Panic of 1837 Labor wars, equal rights, flour riot. The boom collapses, whys and wherefores.
37. Hard Times Life in depression. Battles over relief and the role of government. Revivals and Romanism. Gangs, police, and P. T. Barnum.
PART FOUR EMPORIUM AND MANUFACTURING CITY (1844-1879)
38. Full Steam Ahead The great boom of the 1840s and 1850s: immigration, foreign trade, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and finance. The Crystal Palace and the Marble Palace.
39. Manhattan, Ink New York as national media center: telegraph, newspapers, books, writers, art market, photography.