Read Brooklyn’s Renaissance: Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World - Melissa Meriam Bullard | ePub Online

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This book shows how modern Brooklyn’s proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn’s elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association. The associative ethos behind Brooklyn

Title : Brooklyn’s Renaissance: Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Author : Melissa Meriam Bullard
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 03, 2021

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