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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
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0393881164
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9780393881165
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Book Title
Taking Manhattan : the Extraordinary events That Created New York and Shaped America
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Language
English
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Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Publication Year
2025
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History
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Hardcover
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1.3 in
Item Weight
21.4 Oz
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9.3 in
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6.4 in
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More than any other person, Russell Shorto rescued New Amsterdam from historic obscurity. Shorto is a great researcher and a persuasive storyteller., Russell Shorto tells the story beautifully, and makes a compelling case for its enduring importance., Nobody understands the origins of New York City better than historian Russell Shorto. Taking Manhattan brilliantly illuminates how a seventeenth century Dutch enclave of 1,500 residents, on acreage swindled from Native Americans, rose to become the most cosmopolitan New World port in the 17th century and beyond. Shorto, a detail-driven scholar, seamlessly weaves together secondary literature with newly translated Dutch documents to astonishing effect. This narrative is the historiographical Rosetta Stone of how New York City was born. With keen exactitude, Shorto explains how the Atlantic Slave Trade was an essential component of the building of New York City. As both a work of American and European history Taking Manhattan soars!, There is something special about New York City; something about its energy, openness, and diversity that makes it stand out from the world's other great cities. In this fascinating book, Russell Shorto unravels the DNA inside New York. He tells the story of the city's distinctly Dutch origins, its Native American heritage, its legacy of slavery and its transition to becoming an English city. I think I know New York, but it opened by eyes to the city and its rich history., New Amsterdam--pluralistic, capitalistic, pulsing with energy--has survived. Best of all, Russell Shorto himself feels everywhere present in these spirited, revelatory pages., How did New Amsterdam really become New York? Who made up the cast of characters behind this unusual and consequential takeover? And how did slavery play a part in the rise of a world class financial center that many people today imagine as having been northern and free? Taking Manhattan is a riveting, thoroughly researched account of the men and women of Indigenous, Dutch, African, Jewish, and English descent who populated this thriving seventeenth-century port that was the glory of the Netherlands and envy of England. Filled with new knowledge, eloquent prose, and international intrigue, Russell Shorto's history of Manhattan's shift from Indigenous hands, to Dutch oversight, to English authority, and ultimately to a state of cultural hybridity, will take your breath away., A masterful account of the international struggle for control of 17th-century Manhattan, a fascinating, often overlooked saga. . .packed with intrigue and fascinating subplots. . . A bracing narrative of the international standoff that birthed America's biggest city., Fascinating . . . [Shorto's] vivid account emphasizes New York's roots in pluralism and a capitalist ethos while also tracing the roles of slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans in the city's founding., Taking Manhattan takes up from where The Island at the Center of the World left off, this time tracing the fascinating story of how New York became New York. Shorto's masterful narrative is not only about the English-Dutch fight for North America, but also brings much-neglected stories of Native Americans and African Americans into a heady stew that is our real founding story., More than any other single person, Russell Shorto rescued Dutch New Amsterdam in 2004 from historic obscurity. This new book performs the same service for the English takeover of the city in 1664. Rather than seeing this event as a simple conquest by a more powerful nation, Shorto interprets the event as a sort-of Dutch-English merger that made it possible for this small settlement to become later the greatest city in the world. Shorto is a great researcher and a persuasive storyteller. Taking Manhattan illuminates a fresh perspective on an event that changed the world., Taking Manhattan picks up where The Island at the Center of the World leaves off. Shorto's masterful narrative brings the much-neglected stories of Native Americans and African Americans into a heady stew that is our real founding story., Nobody understands the origins of New York City better than historian Russell Shorto. Taking Manhattan brilliantly illuminates how a seventeenth century Dutch enclave of 150 residents, on acreage swindled from Native Americans, rose to become the most cosmopolitan New World port in the 17th century and beyond. Shorto, a detail-driven scholar, seamlessly weaves together secondary literature with newly translated Dutch documents to astonishing effect. This narrative is the historiographical Rosetta Stone of how New York City was born. With keen exactitude, Shorto explains how the Atlantic Slave Trade was an essential component of the building of New York City. As both a work of American and European history Taking Manhattan soars!, "This vivid history chronicles England's "taking" of New Amsterdam from the Dutch, in 1664. Shorto, however, argues that it was the Dutch, not the English, who sowed the seeds of the multiethnic, religiously tolerant, and unabashedly capitalistic metropolis that would emerge as New York. ", Shorto is earnest, humorous, intellectual, intense and high-minded. . . Any reader curious about New York, and the unique energy and warmth of its inhabitants, will be fascinated by Russell Shorto's highly enjoyable reconstruction of Manhattan Island's transition to English rule., In this fascinating book, Russell Shorto unravels the DNA inside New York. I thought I knew New York, but it opened my eyes to the city and its rich history., A riveting account of the men and women of Indigenous, Dutch, African, Jewish, and English descent who populated this thriving seventeenth-century port. Filled with new knowledge, eloquent prose, and international intrigue, Russell Shorto's history will take your breath away., The flavor of New Amsterdam -- pluralistic, capitalistic, pulsing with energy -- has survived. The history of how a Dutch town of 1500 people and some 28 languages became the city of New York evaporated along the way. Russell Shorto has heroically recovered it, offering up the 17th century transfer of power as it actually occurred and in vivid detail. Here, amid red-tiled roofs, are secret negotiations; last-ditch, female intermediaries; and, for good measure, a Connecticut alchemist. Best of all, Shorto himself feels everywhere present in these spirited, revelatory pages., Here is the whirligig of history, which Shorto captures vividly in this well-researched, well-written, sprightly book. Anyone interested in what leads to or can forestall wars of empire will find Taking Manhattan a rewarding, instructive read.
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One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York--that brash, bold, archetypal city--came to be., In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland's canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories--of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York's origins--boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement--reflects America's promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as "astonishing" ( New York Times ) and "literary alchemy" ( Chicago Tribune ), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings., In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland's canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories--of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York's origins--boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement--reflects America's promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as "astonishing" (New York Times) and "literary alchemy" (Chicago Tribune), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.
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