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Edwin G. Burrows

 
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(b. 1943)

1999Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. The authors draw high praise and win the Pulitzer Prize for this social history of New York City from the ice age to 1898, when the five boroughs were incorporated.

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Edwin G. Burrows (born 1943) is a professor of history at Brooklyn College, and is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Burrows received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973.[1] He currently resides in Northport, New York on Long Island.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Edwin G. Burrows: Broeklundian Professor of History". http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=81. Retrieved 2009-10-22. 
  2. ^ DeWan, George (April 24, 2000). "LONG ISLAND OUR PAST / LI to NY: Hey, You Owe Us". Newsday. http://www.newsday.com/news/long-island-our-past-li-to-ny-hey-you-owe-us-a-prize-winning-historian-points-out-where-the-city-would-be-without-the-suburb-1.299073. Retrieved 2009-10-22. 

External links

  • Interview with Burrows on "New Books in History"


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