Elizabeth Blackmar

Biographic Data

ID807470
NAMEElizabeth Blackmar
GIVEN NAMESElizabeth
FAMILY NAMEBlackmar
SIGNATUREBLACKMAR E
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Designing Gotham

    Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    The men educated at West Point” between 1817 and the Civil War, writes Jon Scott Logel, “led American soldiers in battle” and “also designed, supported, and built the infrastructure for nineteenth-century America” (p. 25). Logel examines the education and careers of West Pointers who contributed to the building of New York City. Sylvanus Thayer, who became superintendent of the military academy in 1817, modeled the curriculum after Napoleon Bonap…

  • Corporate Wasteland

    Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Reviewed by: Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization Elizabeth Blackmar (bio) Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. By Steven HighDavid W. Lewis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. 193. $18.95. In Corporate Wasteland, Steven High and photographer David W. Lewis capture in oral histories and photos the material and psychic landscapes of [End Page 228] working-class America…

  • Concrete and Clay

    Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEThe Public Historian2004Cited by: 3

    Book Review| May 01 2004 Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City Elizabeth Blackmar Elizabeth Blackmar Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (2): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.2.109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon…

  • Concrete and Clay

    Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEThe Public Historian2004

  • American Picturesque

    Elizabeth Blackmar, John Conron et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002

  • The rise of political economy as a science

    Open AccessElizabeth BlackmarARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2002

  • Modernist Ruins

    Open AccessElizabeth BlackmarARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2001Cited by: 4

    On The Plains. By Peter Brown. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. 131 pages. $39.95. Disarming the Prairie. By Terry Evans. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 96 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $29.95 (paper). Fish Story. By Allan Sekula. Dusseldorf: Richter Verlag, 1995. 204 pages. $45.00. American Ruins. By Camilo Jose Vergara. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999. 224 pages. $60.00. FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY WORK, PHOTOGRAPHERS …

  • A Clearing in the Distance

    Elizabeth Blackmar, Witold RybczynskiARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. By Witold Rybczynski. (New York: Scribner, 1999. 480 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-684-82463-9.) Get access Elizabeth Blackmar Elizabeth Blackmar Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 688–689, https://doi.org/1…

  • Apostle of Taste

    Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEEnvironmental History1997

  • New York, New York

    Elizabeth Blackmar, Elizabeth HawesARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869–1930). By Elizabeth Hawes. (New York: Knopf, 1993. xvi, 285 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-55641-0.) Get access Elizabeth Blackmar Elizabeth Blackmar Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 716–717, https://doi.org/…

  • The Park and the People

    Robin F Bachin, Roy Rosenzweig et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

  • The Park and the People

    Thomas Bender, Roy Rosenzweig et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. By Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv + 623 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2516-6.) Get access Thomas Bender Thomas Bender New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 621–623, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850

    Michael J Doucet, Michael Doucet et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1991

  • Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850

    Edward Pessen, Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1990

  • Building a Housing Crisis

    Richard Stott, Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850

    Graham Russell Hodges, Graham Hodges et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Manhattan for Rent, 1785–1850. By Elizabeth Blackmar. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. xvi + 348 pp. $29.95.) Get access Graham Hodges Graham Hodges Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078682 Published: 01 June 1990

  • Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850

    Eric H Monkkonen, Elizabeth BlackmarARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1990

  • The American Historical Association, Part 2

    Open AccessElizabeth BlackmarARTICLEInternational Labor and…1988

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  • The Urbanization of Capital

    Elizabeth Blackmar, D C Harvey et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1988