Jill Jonnes's recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in a new final chapter the extraordinary and monumental rebuilding of the borough by the...

The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary...

"Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World" von Jill Jonnes ist ein fesselndes Sachbuch, das die spannende Geschichte des Wettstreits um die Elektrifizierung der Welt im späten 19. Jahrhundert...