SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Janet L. Abu-Lughod. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities. University of Minnesota Press. 1999. 580pp.

Tyler Anbinder. Five Points: The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. Free Press. 2001. 532pp.

Michael Batterberry. On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolution. Routledge. 1998. 379pp.

Ronald H. Bayor; Timothy J. Meagher (editors). The New York Irish. JHU Press. 1997. 768pp.

Sven Beckert. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. Cambridge University Press. 2003. 512pp.

Thomas Bender. The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea. NYU Press. 2007. 304pp.

Kathleen Benson; Philip M. Kayal. A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City. Museum of the City of New York. 2002. 280pp.

Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press. 1999. 1383pp.

Vincent J. Cannato. Ungovernable City: John Lindsay's New York and the Crisis of Liberalism. New York: Basic Books. 2001. 720pp.

Jerome Charyn. Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace, and Magical Land. Putnam. 1986. 304pp.

Melvyn Dubofsky. When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era. University of Massachusetts Press. 1968. 225pp.

Edward Robb Ellis. The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History. Carroll & Graf. 2005. 640pp.

Leslie M. Harris. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. University of Chicago Press. 2002. 380pp.

Hendrik Hartog. Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870. Cornell University Press. 1989. 274pp.

Eric Homberger. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History. Macmillan. 2005. 192pp.

Jenna Weissman Joselit. Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940. Indiana University Press. 1983. 209pp.

Gwen Kinkead. Chinatown: A Portrait of a Closed Society. HarperCollins. 1992. 211pp. New York City's Chinatown.

Jeffrey A. Kroessler. New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis. NYU Press. 2002. 367pp.

James Lardner; Thomas Reppetto. NYPD: A City and Its Police. Macmillan. 2001. 384pp.

Chris McNickle. To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City. Columbia University Press. 1995. 403pp.

John Louis Recchiuti. Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 311pp.

Julia Solis. New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City. Routledge. 2005. 251pp.

Dan Wakefield. New York in the 50's. Macmillan. 1999. 368pp.

David Ward; Olivier Zunz (editors). The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940. JHU Press. 1997. 370pp.

Beth S. Wenger. New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise. Yale University Press. 1996. 269pp.

Anthony Wood. Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City's Landmarks. Routledge. 2007. 448pp.

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