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Taking Manhattan: the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Taking Manhattan: the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
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Shorto, Russell
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From the Book - First edition.
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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History
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
New York (N.Y.) -- History
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Shorto, Russell
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9780393881165
9798895940365
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