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Taking Manhattan the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America

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.

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Main Author: Shorto, Russell (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
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New York (N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
Creative nonfiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The view from the mountaintop
  • Part one: Squaring off. The invader
  • The defender
  • Enemy waters
  • Stuyvesant's error
  • Part two: Settlement and exile. Rabbits on an anthill
  • The trailblazer
  • The exile
  • Dorothea Angola
  • Restoration London
  • Part three: A game of chess. Doppelganger
  • Gravesend
  • The alchemist
  • The delegation
  • The effusion of Christian blood
  • White flag
  • "The town of Manhatans"
  • Part four: The invention. Remaining English
  • Merger
  • Going Dutch
  • The mystery.

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