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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> New York City is one of the most intricate products of the human imagination. Today it ranks among the modern world’s greatest financial media and cultural capitals. It is a city everywhere renowned for its glamour and its influence. What happens in New York is immediately reported to millions of people all over the world. And yet what few realize as they follow events in this great modern city is that New York is also the oldest major city in the United States. Unlike the nation’s other early cities or many of the well-known Old World cities that exude a cherished past New York rarely uses its history in construct ing its identity or in stimulating its economy. Perhaps because the city has al ways been a place where people have come to build new lives New York and its citizens have rarely wanted to look back. Instead the past for them often either lies in the way of progress or is enshrined in memory in some other part of the world. For that reason many people find it hard to think of archaeology in the context of New York. Both archaeology and the past are things that happen elsewhere; the present and future are in New York.