Books by Burton Harrison

The social life of New York at this period was invested with a peculiar charm. Wealth and refinement, money-making and good-breeding, were blended as never before. -from Chapter XLVI: The Final Struggle From the exuberance of post-Revolutionary Manhattan to the great debate over incorporating the independent municipality of Brooklyn into the City of New York, this final volume of an extraordinary three-volume history of New York remains an informative and entertaining resource today. Volume 3 relates tales of social elegance and bustling commerce, of the founding of Alexander Hamilton's newspaper and Broadway theaters, of grand civic projects of park creation and library building... of the modern foundations of one of the planet's most influential cities. Numerous captivating illustrations depict: . Fifth Avenue at Madison Square . bird's eye view looking south from General Grant's tomb . police parade . Cathedral of St. John the Divine . the Plaza Hotel and Metropolitan Club . bridge at Canal Street in 1800 . Washington Arch . and dozens more. Originally published from 1877 to 1881, this is a delight to browse-for history buffs and lovers of the grand metropolis alike. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Martha J. Lamb's Wall Street in History. American historian MARTHA J. LAMB (d. circa 1892) was a prolific author, publishing children's books, novels, short stories, and magazine articles, as well as serving as editor of the Magazine of American History. Active in charitable organizations, she founded Chicago's Home for Friendless and Half-Orphan Asylum, and was secretary of the city's first Sanitary Fair in 1863. MRS. BURTON HARRISON, née Constance Cary (1843-1920), was the wife of Burton Novell Harrison, personal secretary to Jefferson Davis. Recollections Grave and Gay (1911), her autobiography, relates her childhood in pre-Civil War Virginia and her experience as a young adult there during the war.

George III and his Lords denounced New York as "rebellious."... The freedom of the New York press, the action of the New York Assembly... provoked universal apprehension.-from Chapter XXIX: Foreshadowing of the RevolutionFrom the social and civic instability of pre-Revolutionary Manhattan to the first presidential inauguration of George Washington in New York-the new nation's new capital-in 1787, this second volume of an extraordinary three-volume history of New York remains an informative and entertaining resource today.Volume 2 rings with dramatic stories of a city in upheaval during a time of war, a city-biography fraught with tales of epidemic and quarantine, riots and battles, political intrigue and sedition.Numerous captivating illustrations depict:. historic Fraunces Tavern. the Great Tea Meeting of 1773. reading of the Declaration of Independence at City Hall. adoption of the Federal Constitution. Washington taking the oath. and dozens more.Originally published from 1877 to 1881, this is a delight to browse-for history buffs and lovers of the grand metropolis alike. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Martha J. Lamb's Wall Street in History.American historian MARTHA J. LAMB (d. circa 1892) was a prolific author, publishing children's books, novels, short stories, and magazine articles, as well as serving as editor of the Magazine of American History. Active in charitable organizations, she founded Chicago's Home for Friendless and Half-Orphan Asylum, and was secretary of the city's first Sanitary Fair in 1863.MRS. BURTON HARRISON, née Constance Cary (1843-1920), was the wife of Burton Novell Harrison, personal secretary to Jefferson Davis. Recollections Grave and Gay (1911), her autobiography, relates her childhood in pre-Civil War Virginia and her experience as a young adult there during the war

A wooded island upon the border of a vast, unexplored, picturesque wild, three thousand miles from civilization, becomes within three centuries the seat of the arrogant metropolis of the Western world.-Martha J. Lamb, in the PrefaceFrom the earliest mentions of Manhattan island by the first European adventurers in the New World to the city's bustling pre-Revolutionary expansion, this first volume of an extraordinary three-volume history of New York remains an informative and entertaining resource today.Volume 1 brims with exciting tales of the founding of the most famous city in the world, and sings with names that New Yorkers and its devotees will instantly recognize from the landmarks and place names they left behind: Henry Hudson, Peter Minuet, Van Cortlandt and Van Dam, Peter Stuyvesant, and many, many others.Numerous enchanting illustrations depict:. Manhattan Island in primitive solitude. Dutch windmills. first view of New Amsterdam. first ferry to Long Island. Stuyvesant's pear tree. City Hall, Wall Street. and dozens more.Originally published from 1877 to 1881, this is a delight to browse-for history buffs and lovers of the grand metropolis alike.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Martha J. Lamb's Wall Street in History.American historian MARTHA J. LAMB (d. circa 1892) was a prolific author, publishing children's books, novels, short stories, and magazine articles, as well as serving as editor of the Magazine of American History. Active in charitable organizations, she founded Chicago's Home for Friendless and Half-Orphan Asylum, and was secretary of the city's first Sanitary Fair in 1863.