NEW YORK by Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt talks about his home town.

Theodore Roosevelt writes here about his home, New York, with a combination of love, knowledge, and enthusiasm.  The Reader will benefit from the references to history, from the time of the Dutch control to the 1900 era.  The book includes comments and information about the developments in that period such as the rise of the trading colony, the Revolution, the industrialization, and the thriving energy.

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I. - Discovery and First Settlement.1609-1626 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
II. - The Dutch Town Under the First Three Directors.
1626-1647 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
III. - Stuyvesant and the End of Dutch Rule. 1647-1664 . . . . . . .33
IV. - New Amsterdam Becomes New York. The Beginning
of English Rule. 1664-1674 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
V. - New York Under the Stuarts. 1674-1688 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
VI. - The Usurpation of Leisler.1689-1691 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
VII. - The Growth of the Colonial Seaport. 1691-1720 . . . . . . . .67
VIII. - The Closing of the Colonial Period. 1720-1764 . . . . . . . .77
IX. - The Unrest Before the Revolution. 1764-1774 . . . . . . . . . . .87
X. - The Revolutionary War. 1775-1783 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
XI. - The Federalist City. 1783-1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
XII. - The Beginning of Democratic Rule. 1801-1821 . . . . . . . . .123
XIII. - The Growth of the Commercial and
Democratic City. 1821-1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
XIV. - Recent History. 1860-1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153