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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard HawPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780813543505ISBN 10: 0813543509 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 05 May 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction: Culture, History and the Brooklyn Bridge Manufacturing Consensus, Practicing Exclusion: Ideology and the Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge ""The Eyes of All People Are Upon Us"": Tourists, Immigrants, and the Brooklyn Bridge The View of the Bridge: Perspective, Context, and the Urban Observer American Memory: History, Fiction, and the Brooklyn Bridge Revision and Dissent: The Brooklyn Bridge from its Centennial until the Present Epilogue: The Brooklyn Bridge in the Wake of Terror"ReviewsIn the most important work on the Brooklyn Bridge in a generation, Richard Haw shows how and why it remains a central but contested American icon. - David E. Nye, author of America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings Absorbing and provocative, Richard Haw sells you the great bridge in a thousand incarnations. - Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley In the most important work on the Brooklyn Bridge in a generation, Richard Haw shows how and why it remains a central but contested American icon. - David E. Nye, author of America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings Absorbing and provocative, Richard Haw sells you the great bridge in a thousand incarnations. - Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley Author InformationRICHARD HAW completed his Ph.D. in his hometown at the University of Leeds before permanently settling in New York. He is a professor of literature and writing at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |