The Hudson: America's River

Frances Dunwell

Published by Columbia University Press 2008

The Hudson

America's River

Frances Dunwell

https://doi.org/10.7312/dunw13640

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Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspires changes in American history and culture. Lavishly illustrated with color plates of Hudson River School paintings, period engravings, and glass plate photography, The Hudson captures the spirit of the river through the eyes of its many admirers. It shows the crucial role of the Hudson in the shaping of Manhattan, the rise of the Empire State, and the trajectory of world trade and global politics, as well as the river's influence on art and architecture, engineering, and conservation.

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Frances F. Dunwell is the author of Hudson River Highlands and has spent over thirty years in a number of nonprofit and governmental positions dedicated to conserving the natural and historic heritage of the Hudson River.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Robert F. Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Prologue River of Imagining, People of Passion and Dreams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiii
1. World’s End, World Trade, World River Henry Hudson’s Failed Quest, Adriaen Van der Donck’s Utopian Vision, and the Legend of the Storm Ship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The River That Unites, the River That Divides King George and George Washington Vie for the Hudson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. America’s River of Empire Robert Fulton’s Folly, Robert Livingston’s Venture Capital, and DeWitt Clinton’s Ditch Spark the Rise of New York Port Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. First Stop on the American Tour Europe Discovers Sylvanus Thayer’s West Point, a Catskills Sunrise, and a River That Defines the American Character Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5. America’s First Artists and Writers Th e Sacred River of Thomas Cole, the Mythic River of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. The Industrialized River Gouverneur Kemble’s Weapon Works, Henry Burden’s Iron Foundries, and Colonel Stevens’s Engine Factory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. Going up the River for Health and Fun New York City Journalist N. P. Willis Survives TB and Discovers an Idle Wild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8. Design with Nature Th e Landscape Gardens of A. J. Downing, the Architecture of A. J. Davis, and the Inspiration for Central Park and Riverside Drive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9. Gateway to America, Escape Route to Canada Immigrants Greet a Beacon of Liberty, John Jervis Creates a New River Route, and a Railroad Goes Underground Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
10. Millionaires’ Row The River Castles of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and Frederic Church, and the Floating Palaces of Manhattan’s West Side Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
11. A Forest to Protect a Commercial River Land Surveyor Verplanck Colvin, Photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard, and the New York Board of Trade Campaign to Safeguard the Hudson in the Adirondacks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
12. An Interstate Park for the Palisades and the Highlands and a New Progressive Vision Elizabeth Vermilye’s Women’s Clubs, Edward and Mary Harriman’s Park, Mrs. Olmsted’s Fresh Air Camp, and Margaret Sage’s Charity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
13. Over, Under, Across, and Through Civil Engineers Triumph Over Nature, Except in New York Harbor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
14. Surviving the Depression, Connecting with Nature FDR’s River of Dignity, Robert Moses’s Riverside Drive, and John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Parkway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
15. The 1960s Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, Clearwater, and Th e Nature Conservancy Campaign to Save a Mountain and Revive a “Dead” River Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Epilogue A River of Power, and the Power of Passion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 392
Illustrations
- Other: 80 illus.

eBook

Published: April 10, 2008
ISBN: 9780231509961