 First edition cover | |
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Victor Bevine |
| Language | English |
| Subject | History of New York City, New Amsterdam |
| Genre | Non-fiction, history |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 1998 (print) 2018 (audiobook) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), audiobook |
| Pages | 1416 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-511634-2 |
| OCLC | 37903500 |
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a non-fiction book by historians Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. Based on over twenty years of research, it was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History, and detailed the history of the city before the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898. A follow-up volume, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, written by Wallace, was published in 2017 and covered New York City history for the following 20 years.[1] Initial plans were to have the second volume's timeline go through World War II, but due to the amount of material, an upcoming third volume should cover the period from 1920 until 1945.[2]