New, Comprehensive History of New York State
available from Cornell University Press

The Empire State, edited by Milton Klein, begins in the early
seventeenth century (when the region was still populated solely by
Native Americans) and concludes in the mid-1990s, by which time
people from all over the world had made the state their home. The
book serves as a successor to A History of New York State, for many
years the standard one-volume account of the region but today
outdated and long out of print. The contributors thoughtfully and
accessibly address such topics as:

* the Dutch colonization of the region,
* the English province,
* the Revolution,
* antebellum society,
* the abolition of slavery and the Civil War,
* the New York City media,
* New York's vibrant political culture,
* labor and leisure
* women's suffrage
* immigration and migration,
* the World Wars, and
* the state's economic development.

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http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornellpress/cup3_catalog.taf?_function=detail&Title_ID=3572.