Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkMacmillan + ORM, 8 mar. 2016 - 584 pagini 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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... buildings that were not altogether derelict were only half occupied . The city seemed almost rustic in its quiet desolation , as conducive to meditation in its manner as the ruins of Greece and Rome . In the way that its isolation from ...
... buildings that were not altogether derelict were only half occupied . The city seemed almost rustic in its quiet desolation , as conducive to meditation in its manner as the ruins of Greece and Rome . In the way that its isolation from ...
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... building a Rome and that the thoroughfares themselves would be their monument. Of all streets, the oldest was Broadway. Originally an Indian trail, subsequently known under the Dutch as De Heere Straat, or Main Street, and then forming ...
... building a Rome and that the thoroughfares themselves would be their monument. Of all streets, the oldest was Broadway. Originally an Indian trail, subsequently known under the Dutch as De Heere Straat, or Main Street, and then forming ...
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... building was erected between 1902 and 1904. Although the appellation the Great White Way did not come until the twentieth century , it was noted much earlier that whatever stretch of Broadway happened to be hosting the greatest number ...
... building was erected between 1902 and 1904. Although the appellation the Great White Way did not come until the twentieth century , it was noted much earlier that whatever stretch of Broadway happened to be hosting the greatest number ...
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... building , but this function yielded to an aesthetic and then to a nearly heraldic role . It is the most conspicuous item ... buildings are the plainest ; as the years advance in the history of tenement - building , through the eighties ...
... building , but this function yielded to an aesthetic and then to a nearly heraldic role . It is the most conspicuous item ... buildings are the plainest ; as the years advance in the history of tenement - building , through the eighties ...
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... buildings . Yet at the same time it is surprising that so many have survived . The ones that have are , by and large , representative of that later , more elaborate , and more ostensibly humanitarian phase of tenement history . They are ...
... buildings . Yet at the same time it is surprising that so many have survived . The ones that have are , by and large , representative of that later , more elaborate , and more ostensibly humanitarian phase of tenement history . They are ...
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