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.