The Great Empire City: Or High and Low Life in New York
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1883
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1883
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231109086
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.
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Medicine
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Author : Lucy Sante
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1466895632
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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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1881
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : Dale Cockrell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393608956
"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising Cain Everybody’s Doin’ It is the eye-opening story of popular music’s seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York’s spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely—to the horror of the elite. This rollicking demimonde drove the development of an energetic dance music that would soon span the world. The Virginia Minstrels, Juba, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin and his hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and the Original Dixieland Jass Band all played a part in popularizing startling new sounds. Musicologist Dale Cockrell recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposés, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places. Everybody’s Doin’ It illuminates the how, why, and where of America’s popular music and its buoyant journey from the dangerous Five Points of downtown to the interracial black and tans of Harlem.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 0870999575
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 : Charles M. Goodsell
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Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Corporations
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Author : Donald D. Kummings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405195517
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
Author : Lloyd Morris
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815603344
This is the entertaining story of New York City's social life and customs over the period 1850 to 1950.