Atlantic Metropolis: An Economic History of New York City
In: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
In: Springer eBooks
In: Economics and Finance
Part I: Pre-contact to the Treaty of Vienna -- 1. Beverstad -- 2. An Island in the Center of its Hinterland -- 3. Port and Entrepot -- Part II: The Displaced Nineteenth Century -- 4. Catastrophic Agglomeration -- 5. A Port in Time -- 6. Manufacturing Employment at Mid-Century -- 7. Huddled Masses of Rational Optimizers -- 8. The Attractions of the Slums -- 9. Money Central -- 10. Global City, Mark 1 -- 11. Perfectly Matched and Perfectly Timed -- Part III: The Short Twentieth Century -- 12. Global City in a Less Integrated World -- 13. New York's Great Depression: The Delayed Fade -- 14. Social Democracy and Suburbanization -- 15. All that is Solid Melts into Air -- 16. The Perfect Storm and the Turning Point -- 17. Resurgent Cities -- 18. America's Global City -- 19. A City of Niches and Enclaves