South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

by Jill Jonnes

Book Overview

Jill Jonnes's recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in a new final chapter the extraordinary and monumental rebuilding of the borough by the grass-roots groups that was just getting underway in 1984. The original book was hailed as a vivid history of the Bronx from its origins as colonial farmlands to the borough's 1980s status as one of the nation's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823221997
• ISBN13: 9780823221998
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"