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Featuring more than sixty images of the Brooklyn bridge, this volume traces the diverse ways that this structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea.

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In the most important work on the Brooklyn Bridge in a generation, Richard Haw shows how and why it remains a central but contested American icon. - David E. Nye, author of America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings ""Absorbing and provocative, Richard Haw sells you the great bridge in a thousand incarnations."" - Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley

Table of Contents
Introduction: Culture, History and the Brooklyn Bridge
Manufacturing Consensus, Practicing Exclusion: Ideology and the Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
"The Eyes of All People Are Upon Us": Tourists, Immigrants, and the Brooklyn Bridge
The View of the Bridge: Perspective, Context, and the Urban Observer
American Memory: History, Fiction, and the Brooklyn Bridge
Revision and Dissent: The Brooklyn Bridge from its Centennial until the Present
Epilogue: The Brooklyn Bridge in the Wake of Terror

The Brooklyn Bridge A Cultural History Rivergate

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 05/05/2008
      ISBN13: 9780813543505, 978-0813543505
      ISBN10: 0813543509
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      Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Featuring more than sixty images of the Brooklyn bridge, this volume traces the diverse ways that this structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea.

      Trade Review
      In the most important work on the Brooklyn Bridge in a generation, Richard Haw shows how and why it remains a central but contested American icon. - David E. Nye, author of America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings ""Absorbing and provocative, Richard Haw sells you the great bridge in a thousand incarnations."" - Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Culture, History and the Brooklyn Bridge
      Manufacturing Consensus, Practicing Exclusion: Ideology and the Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
      "The Eyes of All People Are Upon Us": Tourists, Immigrants, and the Brooklyn Bridge
      The View of the Bridge: Perspective, Context, and the Urban Observer
      American Memory: History, Fiction, and the Brooklyn Bridge
      Revision and Dissent: The Brooklyn Bridge from its Centennial until the Present
      Epilogue: The Brooklyn Bridge in the Wake of Terror

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