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Download or read book The Great Empire City: Or High and Low Life in New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259994602
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The Great Empire City, Or High and Low Life in New York written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Empire City, or High and Low Life in New York: A Mirror of the Great Metropolis The tower is not a solid mass of masonry but consists of three buttressed shafts, joined to gether up to the roadway by four connecting walls. In the Brooklyn tower the course next the caisson is seventeen feet thick; the thickness diminishes by offsets until at high water it is but ten and one-half feet. This forms two well holes, which are filled with concrete below water line, but left open up to the roadway. Spaces were also left from two feet above the arches to Within four and one half feet of the to of the tower. In one of the wide shafts is a sma l verti cal opening two feetfive in ches b three feet, connect ing wit one of these small spaces. By means of a trap and iron ladder access can always be had to the roof. Above the roadway the tower consists of three columns having an oblong section, and united at the top by arches having a s an of thirty-nine and t ee-fourths inches. The points of the arches are 114 1-3 feet above the roadway. The arches are pointed and are formed by 'the intersection of two arcs -of circles having a radius of forty-eight and one-sixth feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Lucy Sante
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466895632
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Low Life written by Lucy Sante and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.
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Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Occidental Medical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luc Sante
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374528997
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Low Life written by Luc Sante and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Puck written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999575
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Art and the Empire City written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Lloyd Morris
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603344
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Incredible New York written by Lloyd Morris and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the entertaining story of New York City's social life and customs over the period 1850 to 1950.
Author : James D. McCabe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lights and Shadows of New York Life, Or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City written by James D. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Empire City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald D. Kummings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405195517
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Walt Whitman written by Donald D. Kummings and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman’s work, and of the experimental nature of his writing Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography
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Total Pages : 1374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New York Review of the Telegraph and Telephone and Electrical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231109086
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Empire City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.
Author : Selma C. Berrol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507107
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book The Empire City written by Selma C. Berrol and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-02-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has always been a symbiotic relationship between New York City and the people who have settled there. This study traces the major developments on Manhattan Island, which began as a base for privateering, as it evolved into one of the world's great cities. At the same time, the author also describes the background, the adjustments that had to be made to the New World, and the contributions of the millions who chose to settle there. There are six chronological chapters, each discussing the groups who came in the years as covered by that chapter, the city as it was when they arrived, what they added to the city, and how life in New York enabled most to improve their lives. The Irish laborers who came in the middle of the 19th century, for example, contributed enormously to the building of a clean water system. The wages earned from this work allowed them to feed, house and clothe their families while enabling the city to avoid the frequent cholera epidemics that had devastated the city in earlier years.
Author : David M. Scobey
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592132355
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Empire City written by David M. Scobey and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, New Yorkers have joked about "The City's" interminable tearing down and building up. The city that the whole world watches seems to be endlessly remaking itself. When the locals and the rest of the world say "New York," they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. Of course, it was not always so; New York's metamorphosis from compact port to modern metropolis occurred during the mid-nineteenth century. Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution.Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building process careening between obsessive calculation and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, "bourgeois urbanists" attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city. Ultimately, they created a mosaic of grand improvements, dynamic change, and environmental disorder. Empire City sets the stories of the city's most celebrated landmarks--Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, the downtown commercial center--within the context of this new ideal of landscape design and a politics of planned city building. Perhaps such an ambitious project for guiding growth, overcoming spatial problems, and uplifting the public was bound to fail; still, it grips the imagination.
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Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Manual of Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Randolph
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476772215
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg written by Eleanor Randolph and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and anecdote-filled biography of Michael Bloomberg—2020 presidential candidate and one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country—is a “masterful work…[and] an absolutely first-rate study of leadership in business, politics, and philanthropy” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) from a veteran New York Times reporter. Michael Bloomberg’s life sounds like an exaggerated version of The American Story, except his adventures are real. From modest Jewish middle class (and Eagle Scout) to Harvard MBA to Salomon Brothers hot shot (where he gets “sent upstairs” and later fired) to creator of the Bloomberg terminal, a machine that would change Wall Street and the financial universe and make him a billionaire, to presidential candidate in 2020, Randolph’s account of Bloomberg’s life reads almost like a novel. “A vivid, timely study of Bloomberg’s brand of plutocracy” (Publishers Weekly), this engaging and insightful biography recounts Mayor Bloomberg’s vigorous approach to New York City’s care—including his attempts at education reform, anti-smoking and anti-obesity campaigns, climate control, and new developments across the city. After he engineered a surprising third term as Mayor, Bloomberg returned to his business and philanthropies that focused increasingly on cities. The chapter that describes this is one of the most revealing of his temperament and energy and vision as well as how he spends his “private” time that was virtually off-limits even when he was mayor. Bloomberg promised to give away his money before he died, and his giving has focused on education, gun control, and a fighting climate change. He joined the 2020 presidential campaign as a moderate liberal and spent his millions focused on ousting President Donald Trump.
