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Download or read book Five Points written by Tyler Anbinder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century NYC’s most dynamic and dangerous neighborhood comes vividly to life in this “careful, intelligent, and sympathetic history” (The New York Times Book Review). Located in today’s Chinatown, Five Points was home to poor immigrants and other marginalized communities. It witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same time it was a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, and boxing matches. It was also the home of meeting halls for the political clubs and the machine politicians who would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archaeological digs, Anbinder has written the first-ever history of Five Points, the neighborhood that was a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America’s immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. A New York Times Notable Book
Book Synopsis The Century Book of Facts by : Henry Woldmar Ruoff
Download or read book The Century Book of Facts written by Henry Woldmar Ruoff and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Century by : Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
Download or read book A Century written by Boston Five Cents Savings Bank and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by : Josiah Gilbert Holland
Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Skyscraper and the City by : Gail Fenske
Download or read book The Skyscraper and the City written by Gail Fenske and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.
Download or read book The Scientific Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Middle-Class City by : John Henry Hepp, IV
Download or read book The Middle-Class City written by John Henry Hepp, IV and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic historical interpretation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America sees this period as a political search for order by the middle class, culminating in Progressive Era reforms. In The Middle-Class City, John Hepp examines transformations in everyday middle-class life in Philadelphia between 1876 and 1926 to discover the cultural roots of this search for order. By looking at complex relationships among members of that city's middle class and three largely bourgeois commercial institutions—newspapers, department stores, and railroads—Hepp finds that the men and women of the middle class consistently reordered their world along rational lines. According to Hepp, this period was rife with evidence of creative reorganization that served to mold middle-class life. The department store was more than just an expanded dry goods emporium; it was a middle-class haven of order in the heart of a frenetic city—an entirely new way of organizing merchandise for sale. Redesigned newspapers brought well-ordered news and entertainment to middle-class homes and also carried retail advertisements to entice consumers downtown via train and streetcar. The complex interiors of urban railroad stations reflected a rationalization of space, and rail schedules embodied the modernized specialization of standard time. In his fascinating investigation of similar patterns of behavior among commercial institutions, Hepp exposes an important intersection between the histories of the city and the middle class. In his careful reconstruction of this now vanished culture, Hepp examines a wide variety of sources, including diaries and memoirs left by middle-class women and men of the region. Following Philadelphians as they rode trains and trolleys, read newspapers, and shopped at department stores, he uses their accounts as individualized guidebooks to middle-class life in the metropolis. And through a creative use of photographs, floor plans, maps, and material culture, The Middle-Class City helps to reconstruct the physical settings of these enterprises and recreate everyday middle-class life, shedding new light on an underanalyzed historical group and the cultural history of twentieth-century America.
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City and State written by Herbert Welsh and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by :
Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Numismatist written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 24-52 include the proceedings of the A.N.A. convention. 1911-39.
Book Synopsis Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois by : Newton Bateman
Download or read book Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois written by Newton Bateman and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by : United States. President
Download or read book A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Analysis of the Electric Railway Problem by : Delos Franklin Wilcox
Download or read book Analysis of the Electric Railway Problem written by Delos Franklin Wilcox and published by New York : The Author. This book was released on 1921 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
