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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... up the west side to King's Bridge on the Harlem River, was gradually straightened and paved and in 1868 was opened as the Boulevard, which constituted a northward expansion of Broadway . By the early twentieth century it had been.
... up the west side to King's Bridge on the Harlem River, was gradually straightened and paved and in 1868 was opened as the Boulevard, which constituted a northward expansion of Broadway . By the early twentieth century it had been.
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... River and broke up near North Brother Island . The victims , members of the Lutheran congregation of St. Mark's , on Sixth Street , 10 had been bound for their annual picnic and cruise on Long Island Sound ; their vessel was a disaster ...
... River and broke up near North Brother Island . The victims , members of the Lutheran congregation of St. Mark's , on Sixth Street , 10 had been bound for their annual picnic and cruise on Long Island Sound ; their vessel was a disaster ...
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... River ( now more generally known as the Hudson , after its upstate continuation ) , lay slums that were , if anything , even worse than their East Side counterparts . The name generally applied to this district was Hell's Kitchen ...
... River ( now more generally known as the Hudson , after its upstate continuation ) , lay slums that were , if anything , even worse than their East Side counterparts . The name generally applied to this district was Hell's Kitchen ...
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... river to river above 125th Street and up past the Polo Grounds . With relative ease , all things considered , the district had changed its face entirely in less than a quarter of a century , and African- Americans , traditionally the ...
... river to river above 125th Street and up past the Polo Grounds . With relative ease , all things considered , the district had changed its face entirely in less than a quarter of a century , and African- Americans , traditionally the ...
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