Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 04, Number 1 (Fall 1991)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

Growing the Region’s Economic Future: The Long Island High Technology Incubator By Francis P. Hession and Ann-Marie Scheidt - 2 /

The Social Utility of Failure: Long Island’s Rubber Industry and the Setauket Shtetle By Marc J. Stern - 15 /

The World the Shipbuilders Made: An Entrepreneurial Elite on Nineteenth-Century Long Island By Richard F. Welch - 35 /

Dutch and English Mapping of Seventeenth-Century Long Island By David Y. Allen - 45 /

Class, Status and Power: Long Islanders in Congress, 1789-1899 By Richard P. Harmond - 63 /

Politics as a Career for Long Island Women By Maxine Postal - 74 /

History in the Making: Hampton Hills and Land Preservation in Suffolk County By Carolyn A. Zenk - 80 /

Political Journalism in the 1790s: Frothingham’s Long Island Herald By Steven R. Coleman - 92 /

Henry George: America’s All-But-Forgotten Economist and His Relevance for Long Island By Stan Rubenstein and Gerald McGuirk - 106 /

REVIEWS:

David Rosner. A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915. By Nancy Tomes - 119 /

Craig H. Roell. The Piano in America, 1890-1940. By Nancy Groce - 122 /

Aimee Evans and Carol Saft, producers. Shared Ground. By Linda Barber - 123 /

Joann P. Krieg, ed. Long Island Architecture. By Robert B. MacKay - 126 /

Bradley L. Harris. Black Roots in Smithtown: A Short History of the Black Community. By Floris B. Cash - 126 /

Kevin L. Stayton. Dutch By Design: Tradition and Change in Two Historic Dutch Houses. By Geoffrey L. Rossano - 129 /

Vincent F. Seyfried and William Asadorian. Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs. By Thomas D. Beal - 131 /

Joshua Stoff. From Airship to Spaceship: Long Island in Aviation and Spaceflight. By Marie Fitzgerald and Paul Baker - 132 /

Kathryn St. John. Dutchman: The Tale of New Netherland. By Mildred DeRiggi - 133 /

BOOK NOTES - 134 /

COMMUNICATIONS - 135