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Brooklyn's Renaissance
Melissa Meriam Bullard
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Description for Brooklyn's Renaissance
Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages, 16 colour illustrations, 16 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
458
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319501758
SKU
V9783319501758
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99-15
About Melissa Meriam Bullard
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.
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