| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

A History of New York. By François Weil, trans. Jody Gladding. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xx, 354 pp. Cloth, $64.50, ISBN 0-231-12934-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-231-12935-1.)

François Weil's Histoire de New York, published in French in 2000, deserves translation. He sets out to trace a theme running through the history of New York, the encounter of the city's striking diversity of population, ethnicity, race, and religion with the evolving nature of the capitalist system. He proposes to "decipher the writings of the past beneath the overlay of today's metropolis" (p. xiv). His view of New York is of a community little given to piety toward the past. Weil's New York is quick-footed in seizing opportunities and adapting to changing circumstances. It is "the opportunist city par excellence" (p. xv).

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