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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... vice and crime , misery and graft , panic and despair , chaos and saturnalia . While New York has adopted as its nickname the Big Apple , that hopeful tag given it by jazz musicians when their art was remuneratively in fashion , the ...
... vice and crime , misery and graft , panic and despair , chaos and saturnalia . While New York has adopted as its nickname the Big Apple , that hopeful tag given it by jazz musicians when their art was remuneratively in fashion , the ...
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... Vice drew me, but I could also trace the ruinous course of its effects, and note the political and economic forces that sustained it, and know who profited from it. This book is thus an expression of love and hate, as is appropriate for ...
... Vice drew me, but I could also trace the ruinous course of its effects, and note the political and economic forces that sustained it, and know who profited from it. This book is thus an expression of love and hate, as is appropriate for ...
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... vice in one district . Within a few blocks of each other could be found establishments purveying the whole range of gambling possibilities , from dollar stuss to six - figure baccarat ; an equally wide field of sexual services , varying ...
... vice in one district . Within a few blocks of each other could be found establishments purveying the whole range of gambling possibilities , from dollar stuss to six - figure baccarat ; an equally wide field of sexual services , varying ...
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... vice of murder , in that Victorian way of seeing murder as a sybaritic pleasure indulged in by those sated with mere sex.1 At the same time , a print depicting " The Dying Mother - A Scene in the Old Brewery " shows this parent expiring ...
... vice of murder , in that Victorian way of seeing murder as a sybaritic pleasure indulged in by those sated with mere sex.1 At the same time , a print depicting " The Dying Mother - A Scene in the Old Brewery " shows this parent expiring ...
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... vice and poverty and their reciprocal relationship , as for example the anonymous author of Hot Corn ( 1854 ) : If you would see Cow Bay , saturate your handkerchief with camphor , so that you can endure the horrid stench , and enter ...
... vice and poverty and their reciprocal relationship , as for example the anonymous author of Hot Corn ( 1854 ) : If you would see Cow Bay , saturate your handkerchief with camphor , so that you can endure the horrid stench , and enter ...
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