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- Provides an outstanding cultural analysis of Brooklyn's development in the context of the Renaissance in Europe
- Appeals to scholars of European and American cultural history as well as those interested in Brooklyn more broadly
- Written by a leading historian of European history using a transatlantic approach to the rise of American urban centres
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This book shows how modern Brooklyn’s proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn’s elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association. The associative ethos behind Brooklyn’s fine arts flowering built upon commercial networks that joined commerce, culture, and community. This innovative, carefully researched and documented history employs the concept of parallel Renaissances. It shows influences from Renaissance Italy and Liverpool, then connected to New York through regular packet service like the Black Ball Line that ferried people, ideas, and cargo across the Atlantic. Civil War disrupted Brooklyn’s Renaissance. The city directed energies towards war relief efforts and the women’s Sanitary Fair. The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn’s Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898.
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About the author
Melissa Meriam Bullard is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She has published extensively on the history of the Medici and Florence and recently on the reach of the Italian Renaissance into the nineteenth-century. She brings an Atlantic world perspective of parallel Renaissances to Brooklyn’s history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brooklyn’s Renaissance
Book Subtitle: Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Authors: Melissa Meriam Bullard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50176-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50175-8Published: 13 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84336-0Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50176-5Published: 05 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 458
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, Cultural History, Urban History, American Culture, World History, Global and Transnational History