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Author : Gordon Atkins
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ISBN 13 : 9780879913748
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Health, Housing and Poverty in New York City written by Gordon Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Atkins
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Health, Housing, and Poverty in New York City, 1865-1898 written by Gordon Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299153243
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Sickness and Health in America written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard Plunz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543107
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A History of Housing in New York City written by Richard Plunz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing. A standard in the field since its publication in 1992, A History of Housing in New York City traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present in text and profuse illustrations. Richard Plunz explores the housing of all classes, with comparative discussion of the development of types ranging from the single-family house to the high-rise apartment tower. His analysis is placed within the context of the broader political and cultural development of New York City. This revised edition extends the scope of the book into the city's recent history, adding three decades to the study, covering the recent housing bubble crisis, the rebound and gentrification of the five boroughs, and the ecological issues facing the next generation of New Yorkers. More than 300 illustrations are integrated throughout the text, depicting housing plans, neighborhood changes, and city architecture over the past 130 years. This new edition also features a foreword by the distinguished urban historian Kenneth T. Jackson.
Author : David Ward
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521277112
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Poverty, Ethnicity and the American City, 1840-1925 written by David Ward and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ward examines the geographical relationship between migrants and the inner city and the creation of slums and ghettos.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164923
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores the ethical issues posed when conducting research designed to identify, understand, or ameliorate housing-related health hazards among children. Such research involves children as subjects and is conducted in the home and in communities. It is often conducted with children in low-income families given the disproportionate prevalence of housing-related conditions such as lead poisoning, asthma, and fatal injuries among these children. This book emphasizes five key elements to address the particular ethical concerns raised by these characteristics: involving the affected community in the research and responding to their concerns; ensuring that parents understand the essential elements of the research; adopting uniform federal guidelines for such research by all sponsors (Subpart D of 45 CFR 46); providing guidance on key terms in the regulations; and viewing research oversight as a system with important roles for researchers, IRBs and their research institutions, sponsors and regulators of research, and the community.
Author : Edward O'Donnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539266
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality written by Edward O'Donnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.
Author : United States. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Papers on U.S. immigration history written by United States. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C. Mohr
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501742728
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Radical Republicans and Reform in New York during Reconstruction written by James C. Mohr and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights into the politics of the Reconstruction era are offered in this study. Contending that the North, as well as the South, underwent reconstruction after the Civil War, the author examines the kinds of legislation the Radical Republicans tried to enact when they gained control in New York. Reform is the central theme of the book: fire protection, public health, labor, education, and voting are some of the areas covered. White reaction to black suffrage, the author maintains, brought dissension to, and meant defeat for, a political coalition that had begun to launch a reform program with profound implications.
Author : George Juergens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877954
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World written by George Juergens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To determine how and why Pulitzer turned the unsuccessful New York World into the most widely read and probably the most prosperous newspaper in the country, Professor Juergens isolates and analyzes the special qualities of Pulitzer's new style of journalism. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Kenneth A. Scherzer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822398753
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Unbounded Community written by Kenneth A. Scherzer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stick ball, stoop sitting, pickle barrel colloquys: The neighborhood occupies a warm place in our cultural memory—a place that Kenneth A. Scherzer contends may have more to do with ideology and nostalgia than with historical accuracy. In this remarkably detailed analysis of neighborhood life in New York City between 1830 and 1875, Scherzer gives the neighborhood its due as a complex, richly textured social phenomenon and helps to clarify its role in the evolution of cities. After a critical examination of recent historical renderings of neighborhood life, Scherzer focuses on the ecological, symbolic, and social aspects of nineteenth-century community life in New York City. Employing a wide array of sources, from census reports and church records to police blotters and brothel guides, he documents the complex composition of neighborhoods that defy simple categorization by class or ethnicity. From his account, the New York City neighborhood emerges as a community in flux, born out of the chaos of May Day, the traditional moving day. The fluid geography and heterogeneity of these neighborhoods kept most city residents from developing strong local attachments. Scherzer shows how such weak spatial consciousness, along with the fast pace of residential change, diminished the community function of the neighborhood. New Yorkers, he suggests, relied instead upon the "unbounded community," a collection of friends and social relations that extended throughout the city. With pointed argument and weighty evidence, The Unbounded Community replaces the neighborhood of nostalgia with a broader, multifaceted conception of community life. Depicting the neighborhood in its full scope and diversity, the book will enhance future forays into urban history.
Author : Anitra Pivnick
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 163135812X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Every Thing Counts written by Anitra Pivnick and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Thing Counts is the history of a public health effort that grew organically from the needs of an HIV community in the Bronx, drawing on voluminous energy, passionate commitment, and social activism. It is a firsthand description of the relationship between poverty and disease, and the history of a loving, dedicated collaboration among people of diverse backgrounds who worked together throughout the twenty-five years of the program. The book calls on research participants’ contributions, case records, clinicians’ perspectives, and searing memories of illness, death, and resilience. It is an illuminating treatise on community activism in a time of crisis.
Author : John Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Public Health in New York City: 1866-1966 written by John Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New YorkCity from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement that produced theMetropolitan Health Act of 1866, the forerunner of the present New YorkCity Department of Health. Professor Duffy shows the city's transition from a clean and healthy colonial settlement to an epidemic-ridden community in the eighteenth century, as the city outgrew its health and sanitation facilities. He describes the slow growth of a demand for adequate health laws in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to the establishment of the first permanent health agency in 1866."
Author : John Duffy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062766
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Sanitarians written by John Duffy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aided by an extensive range of photographs and illustrations, the author shows how the various properties of sand and its location in the earths crust are diagnostic clues to understanding the dynamics of the earth's surface. The evolution of public health from a field that sought only to limit the spread of acute communicable diseases to one who's goals include health maintenance, wellness, and environmental conditions--and how this evolution fits into the framework of American social, political, and economic developments. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307817113
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Building The Dream written by Gwendolyn Wright and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly disappear from middle-class houses at the turn of the century? How did the federal highway system change the way millions of Americans raised their families? Building the Dream introduces the parade of people, policies, and ideologies that have shaped the course of our daily lives by shaping the rooms we have grown up in. In the row houses of colonial Philadelphia, the luxury apartments of New York City, the prefab houses of Levittown, and the public-housing towers of Chicago, Wright discovers revealing clues to our past and a new way of looking at such contemporary issues as integration, sustainable energy, the needs of the elderly, and how we define "family."
Author : Marilyn T. Williams
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814205372
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Washing "the Great Unwashed" written by Marilyn T. Williams and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williams (history, Pace U.) details the public bath movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries--the origins, proponents, motives, achievements. Take note California--your drought may be permanent. This is a heavily revised thesis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Irving Howe
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504047559
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book World of Our Fathers written by Irving Howe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a “brilliant” account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other points west, many of these new citizens settled in New York City, especially in Manhattan’s teeming tenements. Like others before and after, they struggled to hold on to the culture and community they brought from their homelands, all the while striving to escape oppression and find opportunity. They faced poverty and crime, but also experienced the excitement of freedom and previously unimaginable possibilities. Over the course of decades, from the 1880s to the 1920s, they were assimilated into the great melting pot as the Yiddish language slowly gave way to English; work was found in sweatshops; children were sent to both religious and secular schools; and, for the lucky ones, the American dream was attained—if not in the first generation, then by the second or third. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, World of Our Fathers explores the many aspects of this time and place in history, from the political to the cultural. In this compelling American story, Irving Howe addresses everything from the story of socialism, the hardships of the ghetto, and the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed scores of garment workers to the “Borscht Belt” resorts of the Catskills in colorful and dramatic detail. Both meticulously researched and lively, it is “a stirring evocation of the adventure and trauma of migration” (Newsweek).
