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Designing Gotham [electronic resource] :West Point engineers and the rise of modern New York, 1817-1898 / Jon Scott Logel.

By: Logel, Jon Scott, 1968- [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War.Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807163733.Subject(s): United States Military Academy -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
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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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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