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Author : James William Buel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities written by James William Buel and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James William Buel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337596484
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities written by James William Buel and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Maffi
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755097
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Gateway to the Promised Land written by Mario Maffi and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New York City's Lower East Side. This storied urban landscape, today a vibrant mix of avant garde artists and street culture, was home, in the 1910s, to the Wobblies and served, forty years later, as an inspiration for Allen Ginsberg's epic Howl. More recently, it has launched the career of such bands as the B-52s and been the site of one of New York's worst urban riots. In this diverse neighborhood, immigrant groups from all over the world touched down on American soild for the first time and established roots that remain to this day: Chinese immigrants, Italians, and East European Jews at the turn of the century and Puerto Ricans in the 1950s. Over the last hundred years, older communities were transformed and new ones emerged. Chinatown and Little Italy, once solely immigrant centers, began to attract tourists. In the 1960s, radical young whites fled an expensive, bourgeois lifestyle for the urban wilderness of the Lower East Side. Throughout its long and complex history, the Lower East Side has thus come to represent both the compulsion to assimilate American culture, and the drive to rebel against it. Mario Maffi here presents us with a captivating picture of the Lower East Side from the unique perspective of an outsider. The product of a decade of research, Gateway to the Promised Land will appeal to cultural historians, urban, and American historians, and anyone concerned with the challenges America, as an increasingly multicultural society, faces.
Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105155
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Astor's New York written by Eric Homberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
Author : Esther Romeyn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816645213
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Street Scenes written by Esther Romeyn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Author : Michael T. Isenberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064340
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (643 download)
Download or read book John L. Sullivan and His America written by Michael T. Isenberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A knockout biography of John L. Sullivan that puts the fabled boxing champ squarely in the context of his rough-and-tumble times. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including the scandalous National Police Gazette, Isenberg (History/Annapolis) recounts how Sullivan brawled his way from a working-class background in Boston's Irish ghetto to the top of the prizefighting world.
Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226327922
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Queering the Underworld written by Scott Herring and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it. In this major rethinking of American literature and culture, Scott Herring explores how a key group of authors manipulated this genre to paradoxically evade the confines of sexual identification. Queering the Underworld examines a range of writers, from Jane Addams and Willa Cather to Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes, revealing how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself. Their work frustrated the reader’s desire for sexual knowledge, restored the inscrutability of sexual identity, and cast doubt on the value of a homosexual subculture made visible and therefore subject to official control. Herring is persuasive and polemical in connecting these writers to ongoing debates about lesbian and gay history and politics, and Queering the Underworld will be widely read by students and scholars of literature, history, and sexuality.
Author : Thomas Ruys Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847251935
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Southern Queen written by Thomas Ruys Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and entertaining look at this crucible period in the life of one of America's most distinctive cities.
Author : Robert Hamlett Bremner
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412836557
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Poverty in the United States written by Robert Hamlett Bremner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline. In a dispassionate way, Bremner was the first to critically examine the origins and transformations of American attitudes toward poverty and reform.
Author : J. Philip Gruen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147326
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Manifest Destinations written by J. Philip Gruen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.
Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090349
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Gunfighter Nation written by Richard Slotkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: The “impressive” conclusion to the “magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history” (Film Quarterly). “The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites’ conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ‘Indian country.’ President John Kennedy invoked ‘New Frontier’ symbolism to seek support for counterinsurgency abroad. In an absorbing, valuable, scholarly study, [the author] traces the pervasiveness of frontier mythology in American consciousness from 1890. . . . Dime novels and detective stories adapted the myth to portray gallant heroes repressing strikers, immigrants and dissidents. Completing a trilogy begun with Regeneration Through Violence and The Fatal Environment, Slotkin unmasks frontier mythmaking in novels and Hollywood movies. The myth’s emphasis on use of force over social solutions has had a destructive impact, he shows.” —Publishers Weekly “Stirring . . . Breaks new ground in its careful explication of the continuing dynamic between politics and myth, myth and popular culture.” —The New York Times “A subtle and wide-ranging examination how America’s fascination with the frontier has affected its culture and politics. . . . Intellectual history at its most stimulating—teeming with insights into American violence, politics, class, and race.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : James Dabney McCabe
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of the Great City written by James Dabney McCabe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Secrets of the Great City" (A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City) by James Dabney McCabe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : California State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : C.A. CUTTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book THE LIBRARY JOURNAL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. VOL.9, JAN.-DEC.1884 written by C.A. CUTTER and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137100117
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive, annotated edition of Maggie is based on Crane's original 1893 text and provides instructors with everything they need to teach the work in its historical and cultural context. Over 175 pages of documents are organized into thematic units on late-nineteenth and turn of the century American society to give the reader a context for Maggie. The various chapters in this edition cover topics such as tenement life; shops, saloons, concert-halls; working women from the perspectives of others; working women tell their own stories; prostitution; realism; and slum fiction.
