Urban Underworlds

Author : Thomas Heise
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813547848

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Urban Underworlds by Thomas Heise Pdf

Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and fusing sociology, urban planning, and criminology with literary and cultural studies, it chronicles how and why marginalized populations-immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities-have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods.

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501729461

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Metropolis on the Styx by David L. Pike Pdf

In Metropolis on the Styx,David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition.Highly original in subject matter, methodology, and conclusions, Metropolis on the Styx synthesizes a number of critical approaches, periods of study, and disciplines in the analysis of a single category of space—the underground. Pike studies the built environments and the textual and visual ephemera (including little-known or unknown archival material) of Paris, London, and other cities in conjunction with canonical modern literature and art. This book integrates a rich visual component—photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined subterranean spaces—into the fabric of the argument.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015003973008

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Urban Anthropology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Liddick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028535529

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An Empirical, Theoretical, and Historical Overview of Organized Crime by Don Liddick Pdf

Part I analyzes the public's perception of organized crime, discusses common myths, describes the most important attributes, addresses issues related to definition, and provides an in-depth look at contemporary global criminal enterprises. Part II is a history of organized crime in the United States from colonial America to the present day. It includes descriptions of the principal enterprises, of how American organized crooks operate, stresses the evolving nature of the phenomenon and discusses the integral part played by political and economic elites. Part III focuses on theoretical issues, describes the sociological foundation, the development of organized crime theories and major organized crime paradigms.

Author : David Lawrence Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015077663014

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Metropolis on the Styx by David Lawrence Pike Pdf

Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. He details the emergence of the vertical city in the imagination of 19th century Paris and London, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below.

Author : Dominique Kalifa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231547260

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa Pdf

Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties—as well as our desires. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us.

Author : David Lawrence Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0801472563

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Subterranean Cities by David Lawrence Pike Pdf

New life underground -- Modern necropolis -- Charon's bark -- Urban apocalypse.

Author : Timothy Gilfoyle
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0312607628

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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo by Timothy Gilfoyle Pdf

Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to life the opium dens, organized criminals, and prisons that comprised the rapidly changing criminal underworld of late nineteenth-century America. The book's introduction and supporting documents, which include investigative reports and descriptions of Appo and his world, connect Appo's memoir to the larger story of urban New York and how and why crime changed during this period. It also explores factors of race and class that led some to a life of crime, the experience of criminal justice and incarceration, and the masculine codes of honor that marked the emergence of the nation's criminal subculture. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Author : James A. Inciardi,Alan A. Block,Lyle A. Hallowell,Lyle Allen Hallowell
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037080822

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Historical Approaches to Crime by James A. Inciardi,Alan A. Block,Lyle A. Hallowell,Lyle Allen Hallowell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCAL:B3868478

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Abstracts on Police Science by Anonim Pdf

An international abstracting service covering police science, the forensic sciences and forensic medicine.

Author : Jeanine Mazak-Kahne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Deindustrialization
ISBN : MSU:31293030634061

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Birthplace of Aluminum, Cradle of Crime by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne Pdf

Author : Roland N. Stromberg
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019273965

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Europe in the Twentieth Century by Roland N. Stromberg Pdf

Recoge: 1. The Peoples and states of Europe on the eve of 1914 - 2. The coming of the great war - 3. The great war of 1914-1918 - 4. Europe transformed:The aftermath of war in the 1920s - 5. The dissolution of the ancestral order:culture and thought in the postwar era - 6. Depression and dictatorship in the 1930s - 7. The background of the second world war - 8. The second world,1939-1945 - 9. Europe and the cold war,1945-1956 - 10. The post-1945 recovery if western Europe - 11. Soviet communism after Stalin - 12. Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s - 13. The 1980s:dramatic decade - 14. The twentieth century winds down:Europe and the world in the 1990s - 15. Conclusion:In the dying century, a dying civilization?

Author : Eugene Newton Anderson,Marja L. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034270772

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Mountains and Water by Eugene Newton Anderson,Marja L. Anderson Pdf

Author : Howard Campbell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477323915

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Downtown Juárez by Howard Campbell Pdf

At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico’s so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn’t believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none of these reasons explain how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly “normal.” A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez’s elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown’s cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Campbell’s is a chilling perspective, suggesting that, over time, violent acts feed off each other, losing their connection to any specific cause. Downtown Juárez documents this banality of evil—and confronts it—with the stories of those most affected.

Author : Ralph Werther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079167659

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Autobiography of an Androgyne by Ralph Werther Pdf

"About This BookFirst printed in 1918, Ralph Werther's Autobiography of an Androgyne charts his emerging self-understanding as a member of the "third sex" and documents his explorations of queer underworlds in turn-of-the-century New York City. Werther presents a sensational life narrative that begins with a privileged upper-class birth and a youthful realization of his difference from other boys. He concludes with a decision to undergo castration. Along the way, he recounts intimate stories of adolescent sexual encounters with adult men and women, escapades as a reckless "fairie" who trolled Brooklyn and the Bowery in search of working-class Irish and Italian immigrants, and an immersion into the subculture of male "inverts." This new edition also includes a critical introduction by Scott Herring that situates the text within the scientific, historical, literary, and social contexts of urban American life in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Tracing how this pioneering autobiography engages with conversations on immigration, gender, economics, metropolitan working-class culture, and the invention of homosexuality across class lines, this edition is ideal for courses on topics ranging from Victorian literature to modern American sexuality."--