New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:George G. Foster, Stuart M. Blumin (Editor), Stuart M. Blumin (Introduction by)Publish date:1990-11-21Pages:251
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520067226ISBN-10:520067223UPC:9780520067226Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, SociologyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th Century, UrbanSize:8.98 x 6.01 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC26THNZ4E
New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum--the underground story--of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520067226ISBN-10:520067223UPC:9780520067226Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, SociologyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th Century, UrbanSize:8.98 x 6.01 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC26THNZ4E
Stuart M. Blumin is Professor of American History at Cornell University, and the author of The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900 (1989).
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