The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History

Author:   Richard Haw
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813543505


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 May 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Richard Haw
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780813543505


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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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"

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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


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 Information

RICHARD 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.

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