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Canada and the United States

François Weil. A History of New York. Translated by Jody Gladding. (The Columbia History of Urban Life.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 354. Cloth $64.50, paper $22.95.

With this book, François Weil offers a crash course in the history of New York City. In just over 300 pages, Weil describes the city from its founding to the present, focusing on subjects that have preoccupied urban and cultural historians over recent decades. Here you will find a little something on almost everything to do with New York: sewers, homosexuality, theater, unions, livestock, religion, crime, museums. Weil and translator Jody Gladding have also produced a very readable book, and the French talent for crafting a well-turned phrase comes through time and again.

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