Nueva York, 1613-1945 / edited by Edward J. Sullivan

London : The New-York History Society in association with Scala, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 286 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Nueve York: the back story / Mike Wallace -- Permeable empires: commercial exchanges between New York and Spanish possessions before 1800 / Cathy Matson -- Cubans in nineteenth-century New York: a story of sugar, war, and revolution / Lisandro P�rez -- Puerto Ricans in ""olde"" Nueva York: migrant Colonias of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Virginia S�nchez Korrol -- Notes on writing in Spanish in New York / Carmen Boullosa -- Painters, politics, and pastries: how New York became a cultural crossroads of the Americas, 1848-99 / Katherine E. Manthorne -- Blame it on Washington Irving: New York's discovery of the art and architecture of Spain / Richard L. Kagan -- Art worlds of Nueva York / Edward J. Sullivan -- The discovery of Spain in New York, Circa 1930 / James D. Fern�ndez -- Making Nueva York Moderna: Latin American art, the international avant-gardes, and the new school / Anna Indych-Lopez -- Before Mambo time: New York Latin music in the early decades (1925-45) / Juan Flores. Subjects; Hispanic Americans New York (State) New York Social life and customs. Hispanic Americans New York (State) New York Intellectual life. Spanish language New York (State) New York History. New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs. New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.