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Brooklyn’s Renaissance

Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Authors:
  1. Melissa Meriam Bullard

    1. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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  • Provides an outstanding cultural analysis of Brooklyn's development in the context of the Renaissance in Europe
  • Appeals to scholars of European and American cultural history as well as those interested in Brooklyn more broadly
  • Written by a leading historian of European history using a transatlantic approach to the rise of American urban centres

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 1-7

  3. Parallel Renaissances in the Atlantic World

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 9-47

  4. Black Ball Business and Commercial Networks

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 49-100

  5. First Steps Toward Brooklyn’s Renaissance

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 101-155

  6. Symphony of the Arts

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 157-208

  7. Sociability, Civil War, and a Diverted Renaissance

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 209-252

  8. Culture of War Relief

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 253-302

  9. Brooklyn’s Changing Complexion

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 303-342

  10. Impact on the Arts

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 343-376

  11. A Fading Renaissance

    • Melissa Meriam Bullard
    Pages 377-422

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 423-458
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About this book

This book shows how modern Brooklyn’s proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century.  Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn’s elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association.  The associative ethos behind Brooklyn’s fine arts flowering built upon commercial networks that joined commerce, culture, and community.  This innovative, carefully researched and documented history employs the concept of parallel Renaissances.  It shows influences from Renaissance Italy and Liverpool, then connected to New York through regular packet service like the Black Ball Line that ferried people, ideas, and cargo across the Atlantic.  Civil War disrupted Brooklyn’s Renaissance.  The city directed energies towards war relief efforts and the women’s Sanitary Fair.  The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn’s Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Melissa Meriam Bullard

About the author

Melissa Meriam Bullard is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.  She has published extensively on the history of the Medici and Florence and recently on the reach of the Italian Renaissance into the nineteenth-century.  She brings an Atlantic world perspective of parallel Renaissances to Brooklyn’s history.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Brooklyn’s Renaissance

  • Book Subtitle: Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

  • Authors: Melissa Meriam Bullard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50176-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50175-8Published: 13 June 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84336-0Published: 13 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50176-5Published: 05 June 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 458

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: US History, Cultural History, Urban History, American Culture, World History, Global and Transnational History

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