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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... museum to the video-game arcade and the movie theater specializing in car-chase and slasher films, many of the enticements have remained constant: blood, fire, speed, and flesh . The categories can be seen as corresponding to.
... museum to the video-game arcade and the movie theater specializing in car-chase and slasher films, many of the enticements have remained constant: blood, fire, speed, and flesh . The categories can be seen as corresponding to.
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... theaters was the most brilliantly lit area of the city . Broadway had two shadow companions : starchy , upper - class Fifth Avenue on the one hand , and on the other the Bowery , the proverbial den of all vices . The dichotomy between ...
... theaters was the most brilliantly lit area of the city . Broadway had two shadow companions : starchy , upper - class Fifth Avenue on the one hand , and on the other the Bowery , the proverbial den of all vices . The dichotomy between ...
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... theaters of the second , third , fifth , and tenth rank . It is also a fact that the Bowery is the only major thoroughfare in New York never to have had a single church built on it . Besides ... Theater riot of 1849 , the Draft Riots of.
... theaters of the second , third , fifth , and tenth rank . It is also a fact that the Bowery is the only major thoroughfare in New York never to have had a single church built on it . Besides ... Theater riot of 1849 , the Draft Riots of.
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... theaters . It may yet become a fit mate for its high - born sister boulevard to the west , or its roaring , polyglot , broad - waisted cousin to the east . It passes Union Square ; and here the hoofs of the dray - horses seem to thunder ...
... theaters . It may yet become a fit mate for its high - born sister boulevard to the west , or its roaring , polyglot , broad - waisted cousin to the east . It passes Union Square ; and here the hoofs of the dray - horses seem to thunder ...
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... WILLE by Jessie Tarbox Beals A couple in their tenement home, evidently under the eaves,. Visiting nurse on Hester Street , traveling over the rooftops . Photograph The Thalia Theater and the Atlantic Garden, seen over the.
... WILLE by Jessie Tarbox Beals A couple in their tenement home, evidently under the eaves,. Visiting nurse on Hester Street , traveling over the rooftops . Photograph The Thalia Theater and the Atlantic Garden, seen over the.
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