PositiveJournal of Interdisciplinary History, MIT PressBurrows and Wallace have collected a mountain of monographic and antiquarian writing, and they have synthesized it in a way that is likely to engage and inform professional and general readers alike ... Gotham does not offer a \"strong\" narrative; it relies upon subtitles as the ligiture of synthesis ... The virtue of Gotham is very much in the details. It visits New Yorkers in their homes and neighborhoods, their streets and workplaces, and their institutions of culture, entertainment, and politics ... There is not enough attention to intrusions from beyond the city, nor to the extensions of the city\'s life (economic, political, and cultural) beyond itself.
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