City s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York s Destruction

The City s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York s Destruction Page Max Wydawca: Yale University Press Data wydania: 2010 ISBN: 9780300164466 Liczba stron: 280 Format: 249 x 171 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: From 19th-century paintings of fires raging through New York to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the movie Deep Impact , images of the city s end have been diverse. This book investigates 2 centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and offers a perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.