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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... city , what noises they heard in the street , what the posters slapped on ... York as circus and jungle , as the realm of danger and pleasure , the ... city , from Kit Burns's Rat Pit to McGurk's Suicide Hall . I was instinctively drawn ...
... city , what noises they heard in the street , what the posters slapped on ... York as circus and jungle , as the realm of danger and pleasure , the ... city , from Kit Burns's Rat Pit to McGurk's Suicide Hall . I was instinctively drawn ...
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... York, where loneliness is a threat and a shield, where poverty forces an ... city was like this a century ago, and it remains so in the present. There ... City,” attempts to inventory transcendence, the ways in which some people tried to ...
... York, where loneliness is a threat and a shield, where poverty forces an ... city was like this a century ago, and it remains so in the present. There ... City,” attempts to inventory transcendence, the ways in which some people tried to ...
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... York City , or , to choose a metaphor more closely tied to the city's history , to the archetypal figures in a gambler's dream book . They are the constituents of New York's vocabulary of symbols , the objects and creatures in its ...
... York City , or , to choose a metaphor more closely tied to the city's history , to the archetypal figures in a gambler's dream book . They are the constituents of New York's vocabulary of symbols , the objects and creatures in its ...
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Lures and Snares of Old New York Lucy Sante. Fex urbis , lex orbis . ( Dregs of the city , law of the world . ) -St . Jerome A knife , a fork , a bottle and a cork : That's the way we spell New York . -Dillinger " Cokane in My Brain ...
Lures and Snares of Old New York Lucy Sante. Fex urbis , lex orbis . ( Dregs of the city , law of the world . ) -St . Jerome A knife , a fork , a bottle and a cork : That's the way we spell New York . -Dillinger " Cokane in My Brain ...
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Lures and Snares of Old New York Lucy Sante. nucleus to their Nineveh . From ... city through much of its history has left little mark or analogue today ... city's first slum . Canal Street was the city's northern limit through the 1820s ...
Lures and Snares of Old New York Lucy Sante. nucleus to their Nineveh . From ... city through much of its history has left little mark or analogue today ... city's first slum . Canal Street was the city's northern limit through the 1820s ...
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