Logel, Jon Scott, 1968-

Designing Gotham West Point engineers and the rise of modern New York, 1817-1898 / [electronic resource] : Jon Scott Logel. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronology -- Introduction: Nineteenth-century New York and West Point -- West Point influence in Victorian Gotham -- An American ecole polytechnique -- The academy of Thayer and Mahan -- Engineering professionals in New York : a new American identity -- Egbert L. Viele's New York -- Toward consolidation : bridges, bosses, and Brooklyn -- Redemption in postbellum Gotham -- The emergence of modern America in West Point's New York.

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United States Military Academy--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

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