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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. First printing. Illustrated softcovers. xviii+ 354 pp. with bibliographical essay, index. Illustrated. Frenchman Francois Weil, historian and Director of North American Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, offers this unique study of New York City, taking on its myth of the city and offering a compelling chronicle of how it actually developed into a global city. He shows how the uneasy tension between capitalism and multiculturalism has been at the heart of the city's immense physical, social, economic, and cultural transformation. He writes, "New york is not America but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise.…