Harlem
Jonathan Gill
Grove Atlantic
<p><B>"An exquisitely detailed account of the 400-year history of Harlem" (<I>Booklist</I>, starred review).</B><BR /> <BR /> Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In <I>Harlem</I>, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.<BR /> <BR /> From Henry Hudson's first contact with native Harlemites, through Harlem's years as a colonial outpost on the edge of the known world, Gill traces the neighborhood's story, marshaling a tremendous wealth of detail and a host of fascinating figures from George Washington to Langston Hughes. Harlem was an agricultural center under British rule and the site of a key early battle in the Revolutionary War. Later, wealthy elites including Alexander...</BR></p>