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Title: Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City by Anne-Marie Cantwell, Diana Dizerega Wall ISBN: 0-300-09799-9 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unearthing a masterwork
Comment: As a long-time student of and writer about old New York, this book held so many surprises for me that I felt like a college freshman again. For so many years I had read about the Native Americans who occupied this city, but the illustrations, maps and photos that accompany this complex narrative give it new, more vivid life for me. The experiences of the Dutch, African-Americans and British that followed are given a face, so to speak, by the detailed, but lively, narration. The graphics, especially of the extreme southern tip of Manhattan, are generous, clear, and highly educational for newcomers to and veterans of this history. (By the way, as a Brooklynite, I want to kiss the authors for covering all five boroughs, and not just focusing on Manhattan, as do most histories of NYC.) This is a book that can be enjoyed on so many levels. It is a great introduction to a relatively--and undeservedly--obscure subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Marvelous Book
Comment: This is the very best book one could have if he is interested in the early history of New York City and the area immediately surrounding it. The coverage of Native Americans is especially strong, fascinating from beginning to end. The authors know their subject thoroughly, write beautifully, and have given us an exciting, scholarly work that will be a classic for some time to come.
Rating: 5
Summary: New York's underground history
Comment: New York, like no other city in the world, is a city of spectacular heights and many books have been written about the buildings that rise to the skies. How many people, however, think about what lies beneath the vast weight of edifices and human life that exists above the ground? In this compelling and instructive book, Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall have a given us a lesson not only about the artifacts and remains that have lain dormant for centuries but also in the history that surrounds their burial and ultimate exposure.
In a time-line fashion (11,000 years before present to today) the authors reconstruct a picture of what life might have been like during these times. Lest one think the unearthings are limited to Manhattan, they are not. All five boroughs are represented. There were moments during the reading of this book that I wanted the authors to spend more time recounting the actual excavations to which they refer, but in the end their historical perspective is the link that saves the day. Without it, their offerings would be no more than a field trip.
My future trips around the city will be made with a new awareness as I ask myself, "I wonder what lies beneath....". It is a question we all can ask.
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Title: The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (Contemporary South Asia S.) by Diane Favro ISBN: 0521646650 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice by Dena Ferran Dincauze ISBN: 0521310776 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by RUSSELL SHORTO ISBN: 0385503490 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: At Sea in the City: New York from the Water's Edge by William Kornblum, Pete Hamill, Oliver Williams ISBN: 1565122658 Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War by Iver Bernstein ISBN: 0195071301 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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