Description
This exemplary social history (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park's people--the merchants and landowners who launched the project; the immigrant and African-American residents who were displaced by the park; the politicians, gentlemen, and artists who disputed its design and operation; the German gardeners, Irish laborers, and Yankee engineers who built it; and the generations of New Yorkers for whom Central Park was their only backyard. In tracing the park's history, Blackmar and Rosenzweig give us the history of New York, and bring to life larger issues about the meaning of the word public in a democratic society.
Author: Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 10/15/1998
Pages: 600
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.14lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.60w x 1.35d
ISBN13: 9780801497513
ISBN10: 0801497515
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | General
About the Author
The late Roy Rosenzweig, Professor of History at George Mason University was the author of Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History at Columbia University, is the author of Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, also from Cornell.