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Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Tricks and Traps of New York City written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014848178
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Tricks and Traps of New York City. written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jesse Haney & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
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Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Snares of New York, Or, Tricks and Traps of the Great Metropolis written by Jesse Haney & Co. (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : C. H. Brainard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332880006
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Tricks and Traps of New York City (Classic Reprint) written by C. H. Brainard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tricks and Traps of New York City When the subject of the Tricks and Traps of New York city was given out to the gentlemen who have in this little book entered upon their task so happily, it was deemed possible to embrace all that was necessary of instruction, illustration and warning, in a volume of the size of the present; and as several gentlemen of worth and standing to whom the plan of the work has been submitted, had urged that it be published at a very low price so as thereby to secure an immense circulation, it was decided to publish it in a sixty-four page 32mo. Volume, at five cents per copy. 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 : C. Brainard
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ISBN 13 : 9781539769194
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Tricks and Traps of New York City written by C. Brainard and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is addressed particularly to persons of both sexes who are about making their first visit to this metropolis, and its object is to put them on the watch against the tricks and wiles of the sharp-witted, small-scale cheats of the town - to give them a knowledge of the swindlers they will encounter at every turn, and the traps and snares for which they must be constantly prepared - to, in short, condense into a small space a great deal of that valuable information which others who have not been forewarned against these perils of purse and pocket, have dearly bought with an actual experience as mortifying as it is expensive. A professional reproduction of the book published in 1857. Unfortunately this edition is missing the original drawings.
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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 : Hans Bergmann
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566393584
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)
Download or read book God in the Street written by Hans Bergmann and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fast changing culture of antebellum New York, writers of every stripe celebrated "the City" as a stage for the daily urban encounter between the familiar and the inexplicable. Probing into these richly varied texts, Hans Bergmann uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the new market society— the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction. The period in which New York, the city itself, became firmly established as a subject invented a literary form that attempts to capture the variety of the teeming city and theflaneur, the walking observer. But Bergmann does not simply lead a parade of images and themes; he explores the ways in which these observers understood what was happening around them and to them, always attentive to class struggle and race and gender issues.God in the Streetshows how the penny press and Whitman's New York poetry create a new mass culture hero who interprets and dignifies the city's confusions. New York writers, both serious and sensationalist, meditate upon street encounters with tricksters and confidence-men and explore the meanings of encounters. Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrinever" underlines the unrelenting isolation and inability to control the interpreter. Bergmann reinterprets Melville'sThe Confidence Manas an example of how a complex literary form arises directly from its own historical materials and is itself socially symbolic. Bergmann sees Melville as special because he recognizes his inability to make sense of the surface of chaotic images and encounters. In mid-century New York City, Melville believes God is in the street, unavailable and unrecognizable, rather than omnipresent and guiding. Author note:Hans Bergmannis Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University.
Author : E.J. White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190657235
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book You Talkin' To Me? written by E.J. White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialect all its own. Often imitated and just as often ridiculed, New York English has its own identity, imbued with the rich cultural history of (as New Yorkers tell it) the greatest city in the world. How did this unique language community develop, and how has it shaped the city as we know it today? In You Talkin' to Me?, E.J. White explores the hidden history of English in New York City -- a history that encompasses social class, immigration, culture, economics, and, of course, real estate. She tells entertaining stories of New York's most famous characters, streets, and cultural institutions, from Broadway to the newspaper office to the department store, illuminating a new dimension of the city's landscape. Full of little-known facts -- C-3PO was originally written to have a New York accent; West Side Story was originally going to be East Side Story, about Jewish and Christian New Yorkers; and "confidence man" started in reference to a specific New York City criminal --the book will delight lovers of language and history alike. The history of English in New York is deeply intertwined with the story of a famous city trying to develop its own identity. White's account engages issues of class and social difference; the invisible barriers that separate insiders from outsiders; the war between children who fit in and their parents who do not; and the struggle of being both an immigrant to the city and a New Yorker. Following language from The Bowery to The Bronx, You Talkin' to Me? offers a fascinating account of how language moves and changes-and a new way of understanding the language history, not only of New York, but of the United States.
Author : Peter C. Baldwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226036022
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book In the Watches of the Night written by Peter C. Baldwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.
Author : John Russell Bartlett
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Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A glossary of words and phrases, usually regarded as peculiar to the United States written by John Russell Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Russell Bartlett
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Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms written by John Russell Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
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Download or read book Trow's New York City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178720135X
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Sucker’s Progress written by Herbert Asbury and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great raconteur of the American underworld, and author of The Gangs of New York, comes Sucker’s Progress: An Information History of Gambling in America. From Midwestern Riverboats to East Coast Racetracks, Herbert Asbury explores the legal and illegal history of gambling in pre-WWII America. Describing notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans, as well as lesser-known outposts in cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also presented are the lives of some of America’s most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like “Canada Bill” and “Charley Black Eyes,” men who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also explores the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of dozens of dice and card games. From $1 lottery tickets to thousand dollar pokes antes, America’s love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury’s era that gambling was established as an American passion. “Asbury embarked on what seems in retrospect an extraordinary mission: to document the entire underworld of America, from New Orleans to San Francisco....His studies of gambling, of the racial politics of the New Orleans French Quarter, and of the history of Chicago crime remain monuments to an ambition that was then confined to the fringes of pop history. Sucker’s Progress, his history of gambling and swindling in America, is dense with facts about a subject one would have thought persisted only as rumour and tall tale.”—A. GOPNIK, The New Yorker One of the best American books of its kind. He tells the story of the New York underworld of the past century, and his narrative is excellently presented in a book adorned with amusing pictures from the weeklies and newspapers.”—E. Pearson, The Sat. Rev. of Books
Author : John Russell Barlett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338230600X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book A Glossary of Words and Phrases written by John Russell Barlett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
