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Author : James William Buel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : NYPL:33433081934204
Author : James William Buel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337596487
Author : Mario Maffi
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814755099
The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New York City's Lower East Side. This storied urban landscape, today a vibrant mix of avant garde artists and street culture, was home, in the 1910s, to the Wobblies and served, forty years later, as an inspiration for Allen Ginsberg's epic Howl. More recently, it has launched the career of such bands as the B-52s and been the site of one of New York's worst urban riots. In this diverse neighborhood, immigrant groups from all over the world touched down on American soild for the first time and established roots that remain to this day: Chinese immigrants, Italians, and East European Jews at the turn of the century and Puerto Ricans in the 1950s. Over the last hundred years, older communities were transformed and new ones emerged. Chinatown and Little Italy, once solely immigrant centers, began to attract tourists. In the 1960s, radical young whites fled an expensive, bourgeois lifestyle for the urban wilderness of the Lower East Side. Throughout its long and complex history, the Lower East Side has thus come to represent both the compulsion to assimilate American culture, and the drive to rebel against it. Mario Maffi here presents us with a captivating picture of the Lower East Side from the unique perspective of an outsider. The product of a decade of research, Gateway to the Promised Land will appeal to cultural historians, urban, and American historians, and anyone concerned with the challenges America, as an increasingly multicultural society, faces.
Author : Esther Romeyn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816645213
'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226327921
At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it. In this major rethinking of American literature and culture, Scott Herring explores how a key group of authors manipulated this genre to paradoxically evade the confines of sexual identification. Queering the Underworld examines a range of writers, from Jane Addams and Willa Cather to Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes, revealing how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself. Their work frustrated the reader’s desire for sexual knowledge, restored the inscrutability of sexual identity, and cast doubt on the value of a homosexual subculture made visible and therefore subject to official control. Herring is persuasive and polemical in connecting these writers to ongoing debates about lesbian and gay history and politics, and Queering the Underworld will be widely read by students and scholars of literature, history, and sexuality.
Author : Michael T. Isenberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252064348
A knockout biography of John L. Sullivan that puts the fabled boxing champ squarely in the context of his rough-and-tumble times. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including the scandalous National Police Gazette, Isenberg (History/Annapolis) recounts how Sullivan brawled his way from a working-class background in Boston's Irish ghetto to the top of the prizefighting world.
Author : David Monod
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501703997
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment. The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience’s ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.
Author : Robert Hamlett Bremner
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412836555
In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline. In a dispassionate way, Bremner was the first to critically examine the origins and transformations of American attitudes toward poverty and reform.
Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300105150
Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
Author : Thomas Ruys Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847251930
An accessible and entertaining look at this crucible period in the life of one of America's most distinctive cities.
Author : J. Philip Gruen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780806147321
In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.
Author : Peter C. Baldwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226036021
Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.
Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781504090346
National Book Award Finalist: The “impressive” conclusion to the “magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history” (Film Quarterly). “The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites’ conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ‘Indian country.’ President John Kennedy invoked ‘New Frontier’ symbolism to seek support for counterinsurgency abroad. In an absorbing, valuable, scholarly study, [the author] traces the pervasiveness of frontier mythology in American consciousness from 1890. . . . Dime novels and detective stories adapted the myth to portray gallant heroes repressing strikers, immigrants and dissidents. Completing a trilogy begun with Regeneration Through Violence and The Fatal Environment, Slotkin unmasks frontier mythmaking in novels and Hollywood movies. The myth’s emphasis on use of force over social solutions has had a destructive impact, he shows.” —Publishers Weekly “Stirring . . . Breaks new ground in its careful explication of the continuing dynamic between politics and myth, myth and popular culture.” —The New York Times “A subtle and wide-ranging examination how America’s fascination with the frontier has affected its culture and politics. . . . Intellectual history at its most stimulating—teeming with insights into American violence, politics, class, and race.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Mary P. Ryan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0520204417
Historian Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the 19th-century city. Using as examples New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco, Ryan illustrates the way in which American cities of the 19th century were as full of cultural differences and as fractured by social and economic changes as any metropolis today. 41 photos.
Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217490
A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.