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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... Park are flurries of anarchist factions , just as there were in 1887 , when the police were engaged in making preemptive arrests in the wake of Chicago's Haymarket Riot . Itinerant banco swindlers still , amazingly , operate out of ...
... Park are flurries of anarchist factions , just as there were in 1887 , when the police were engaged in making preemptive arrests in the wake of Chicago's Haymarket Riot . Itinerant banco swindlers still , amazingly , operate out of ...
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... Park were cleared and opened for development within the following decade . The advance guard of progress generally marched about ten blocks ahead of the actual surge of settlement , so that there was in each case a lag between the ...
... Park were cleared and opened for development within the following decade . The advance guard of progress generally marched about ten blocks ahead of the actual surge of settlement , so that there was in each case a lag between the ...
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... Park and well up into Harlem , the last of them not disappearing until the beginning of the present century , when they melded into the slums of Battle Row and San Juan Hill . Collectively , the uptown squatting areas were called the ...
... Park and well up into Harlem , the last of them not disappearing until the beginning of the present century , when they melded into the slums of Battle Row and San Juan Hill . Collectively , the uptown squatting areas were called the ...
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... Park Row and Pearl Street , respectively . Its term as a quiet country lane lasted about a century ; its use as a highway by cattle drovers plying between the village downtown and the Bowery village that had grown near the Stuyvesant ...
... Park Row and Pearl Street , respectively . Its term as a quiet country lane lasted about a century ; its use as a highway by cattle drovers plying between the village downtown and the Bowery village that had grown near the Stuyvesant ...
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... Park Avenue South has changed very much in the past ninety years . Third Avenue , however , its " broad - waisted cousin to the east , " has been altered so much as to be unrecognizable . Its leading feature , the elevated railroad ...
... Park Avenue South has changed very much in the past ninety years . Third Avenue , however , its " broad - waisted cousin to the east , " has been altered so much as to be unrecognizable . Its leading feature , the elevated railroad ...
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