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Blake, Angela M.

How New York became American, 1890-1924 [electronic resource] / Angela M. Blake. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006. - xi, 242 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index.

Reforming New York's image in the 1890s -- Tourism and New York's image in the 1890s -- Architecture, Americanism, and a "new" New York, 1900-1919 -- New York is not America : immigrants and tourists in post-World War I New York -- Brand New York : making midtown in the 1920s.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
National characteristics, American.
Public opinion--United States.
City and town life--History.--New York (State)--New York
City planning--History.--New York (State)--New York
Tourism--History.--New York (State)--New York
Architecture--History.--New York (State)--New York

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.)--Public opinion.
New York (N.Y.)--Economic conditions.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F128.5 / .B59 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 974.7/1