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The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
The City's End Two Centuries of Fantasies Fears and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Author: Prof. Max Page
From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city?s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York?s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually ever...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300164466
ISBN-10: 0300164467
Publication Date: 7/27/2010
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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