South Bronx Rising: Rise and Fall and Resurrection of an American City
Jill Jonnes's recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in a new final chapter the extraordinary and monumental rebuilding of the borough by the grass-roots groups that was just getting underway in 1984. The original book was hailed as a vivid history of the Bronx from its origins as colonial farmlands to the borough's 1980s status as one of the nation's foremost urban disasters. The book tells the colorful story of the Bronx, starting with its development as a New York suburb and boomtown when hundreds of thousands of German, Irish, Italians, and, abo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2198-1
- EAN: 9780823221981
- Produktnummer: 9794609
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 481 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B16.7 cm x D3.8 cm 839 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 839
Über den Autor
Daughter of American civil servant abroad, Jill Jonnes grew up in many countries. She graduated from Barnard College and the Columbia School of Journalism, has written for The Record (Bergen, N.J.), and free-lances for numerous magazines. Married to a physician, she now lives in Baltimore.
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