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Book Synopsis Alas! what Brought Thee Hither? by : Arthur Bonner
Download or read book Alas! what Brought Thee Hither? written by Arthur Bonner and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study recovers the history of immigrants who left scant records of their struggle to survive in a society in which the Chinese were reviled as dangerous, opium-soaked, and unassimilable. It is based on about 3,000 contemporary newspaper and magazine articles that reflect the prejudices of the times, a major element shaping the history of the Chinese in New York. More than 170 illustrations from newspapers and magazines of the time recapture the stereotyping that justified ghettoization and denial of employment opportunities.
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 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. 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. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America.
Book Synopsis The Immigrant Scene by : Sabine Haenni
Download or read book The Immigrant Scene written by Sabine Haenni and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles: mediating the vast cultural, demographic, and social changes that were sweeping the nation's largest city. In The Immigrant Scene, Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. Considering the relationship between leisure and mass culture, The Immigrant Scene develops a new picture of the metropolis in which the movement of people, objects, and images on-screen and in the street helped residents negotiate the complexities of modern times. In analyzing how communities engaged with immigrant theaters and the nascent film culture in New York City, Haenni traces the ways in which performance and cinema provided virtual mobility--ways of navigating the socially complex metropolis--and influenced national ideas of immigration, culture, and diversity in surprising and lasting ways.
Download or read book Mott Street written by Ava Chin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book * “The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.” —Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all. Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin traces the story of the pioneering family members who emigrated from the Pearl River Delta, crossing an ocean to make their way in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century. She tells of their backbreaking work on the transcontinental railroad and of the brutal racism of frontier towns, then follows their paths to New York City. In New York’s Chinatown she discovers a single building on Mott Street where so many of her ancestors would live, begin families, and craft new identities. She follows the men and women who became merchants, “paper son” refugees, activists, and heads of the Chinese tong, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. She soon realizes that exclusion is not simply a political condition but also a personal one. Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.
Book Synopsis The Dramatic Works by : James Sheridan Knowles
Download or read book The Dramatic Works written by James Sheridan Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Novels of Lord Lytton: The pilgrims of the Rhine. Zicci by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book The Novels of Lord Lytton: The pilgrims of the Rhine. Zicci written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Novels of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton: Leila. Calderon and the courtier. Pausanias the Spartan by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book Novels of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton: Leila. Calderon and the courtier. Pausanias the Spartan written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leila; Or, The Siege of Granada by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book Leila; Or, The Siege of Granada written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leila, Or, The Siege of Granada ; Calderon, the Courtier ; And, The Pilgrims of the Rhine by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book Leila, Or, The Siege of Granada ; Calderon, the Courtier ; And, The Pilgrims of the Rhine written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leila, Or The Siege of Granada and Calderon, the Courtier by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book Leila, Or The Siege of Granada and Calderon, the Courtier written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prose Works: Leila. Calderon. Pilgrims of the Rhine by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book Prose Works: Leila. Calderon. Pilgrims of the Rhine written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leila; or, The siege of Granada, by the author of 'Eugene Aram'. by : Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.)
Download or read book Leila; or, The siege of Granada, by the author of 'Eugene Aram'. written by Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Parables by : Frederic Adolphus Krummacher
Download or read book The Parables written by Frederic Adolphus Krummacher and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leila; or, the Siege of Granada ... Illustrated with splendid engravings, etc. With a portrait by : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Download or read book Leila; or, the Siege of Granada ... Illustrated with splendid engravings, etc. With a portrait written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leila, Or The Siege Of Granada. By Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M. P. A. M. Author Of "Pelham," "Rienzi," "Maltravers," Etc by : Edward-George-Earle Bulwer Lord Lytton
Download or read book Leila, Or The Siege Of Granada. By Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M. P. A. M. Author Of "Pelham," "Rienzi," "Maltravers," Etc written by Edward-George-Earle Bulwer Lord Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dicks' standard plays by : John Thomas Dicks
Download or read book Dicks' standard plays written by John Thomas Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
