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Format	Hardback
Published	May 15, 2018
ISBN-13	9781421425238
Language	English
Pages	256
Words	72846
Halftones, black and white	26
Maps	22
Charts	1
Height	9.25 Inches (US)
Width	6.13 Inches (US)
Thickness	0.89 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.25 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$24.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
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Format	Electronic book text
Published	May 15, 2018
ISBN-13	9781421425245
Print Edition	9781421425238
Language	English
Pages	256
Words	72846
Halftones, black and white	26
Maps	22
Charts	1
Height	9.25 Inches (US)
Width	6.13 Inches (US)
List Prices	$24.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Waterfront Manhattan

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Author: Kurt C. Schlichting
ISBN: 9781421425238

From Henry Hudson to the High Line

By Kurt C. Schlichting

Johns Hopkins University Press

The waterfront was the key to New York City’s growth and prosperity.

For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country’s center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world’s busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land.

In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York’s priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the City of New York regained control of the waterfront, but a whirlwind of forces beyond the control of either public or private interests—technological change in the form of the shipping container and the jet airplane—devastated the city’s maritime world. The city slowly and painfully recovered. Visionaries reimagined the waterfront, and today the island is almost completely surrounded by parkland, the world of piers and longshoremen gone, replaced by luxury housing and tourist attractions.

Waterfront Manhattan is a wide-ranging history that will dazzle anyone who is fascinated by New York.

About the Author

Kurt C. Schlichting is the E. Gerald Corrigan ’63 Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University, where he is a professor of sociology. He is the author of Grand Central’s Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan and Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City.

Reviews

"Well researched, engagingly told, and rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail, Waterfront Manhattan represents a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America's most important city."

- Ray Bert - Civil Engineering

"In Waterfront Manhattan, Schlichting has woven an impressive narrative which is sure to shed light on this underappreciated aspect of New York City history."

- Erin Becker, Long Island Maritime Museum - Global Maritime History

"This is an important book. There is much to ponder on the future of New York City's harbor, encompassing all five of the city's boroughs and also New Jersey's shoreline."

- Evelyn Gonzalez, William Paterson University - Journal of American History

Endorsements

"This book will command serious and broad attention. A worthy successor to Schlichting's first two books, which made important contributions to the history of New York City and transportation history. I enthusiastically recommend it."

- Clifton Hood, author of In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis

"Anyone with an interest in New York City will want to read this book. Schlichting succeeds admirably in describing the evolution of Manhattan's waterfront through the past several centuries—so far as I know there is no published work of such scope and richness. It will also be a valuable addition to courses on urban history, urban planning, and role of civil engineering in changing cities and society."

- Jameson W. Doig, author of Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority

"Waterfront Manhattan is a great book. It explains, better than any other volume I've read, why New York became a great metropolis. Schlichting vividly brings to life the stories of the men and women who made that greatness possible—from international financiers to longshoremen and sailors. It is sure to remain the definitive account of New York's waterfront world for years to come."

- Tyler Anbinder, author of City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

"Schlichting’s Waterfront Manhattan deftly weaves myriad historical sources—census rolls, shipping timetables, maps, government reports—into a complex narrative radiating from Manhattan’s shoreline, unfolding across space and time, at scales from local to global. It’s a critical new telling of the city’s frenetic historical geography."

- Matthew Knutzen, The New York Public Library

"An exceptionally important and riveting study of Manhattan and its relations to its waterfront over the years."

- Andrew A. Beveridge, coeditor of New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future

Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
BISAC Subject Headings	HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) (212 Titles) ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning (55 Titles) SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change (43 Titles) TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History (12 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	History of the Americas (1142 Titles) History of science (322 Titles)
US school grade range	From 17

Format	Hardback
Published	May 15, 2018
ISBN-13	9781421425238
Language	English
Pages	256
Words	72846
Halftones, black and white	26
Maps	22
Charts	1
Height	9.25 Inches (US)
Width	6.13 Inches (US)
Thickness	0.89 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.25 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$24.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Electronic book text
Published	May 15, 2018
ISBN-13	9781421425245
Print Edition	9781421425238
Language	English
Pages	256
Words	72846
Halftones, black and white	26
Maps	22
Charts	1
Height	9.25 Inches (US)
Width	6.13 Inches (US)
List Prices	$24.95 USD, £20.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference