Blake weaves a compelling story of a city's struggle for metropolitan and national status and its place in the national imagination.

Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, po

Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, po

Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic

"Drawing on a wide range of textual and visual primary sources, Blake guides the reader through New York's many civic identities, from the first generation of N