Author: Cornelius MathewsPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Pen-and-ink Panorama of New-York City
Author: Cornelius MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Five Points
Author: Tyler AnbinderPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439137749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America.
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of the City of New York, Containing the Additions Made to August, 1856
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-YorkPublisher:
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Category : Merchants
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Henry Bright, Esq., of Northampton, Mass.
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of A. Oakey Hall, Esq.
Author: Abraham Oakey HallPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Bibliographical Guide to American Literature ...
Author: Nicolas TrübnerBiographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerTrübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature; being a classified list of books, in all departments of Literature and Science, published in the United States of America during the last forty years. With an introduction, notes, three appendices and an index
Author: Nicolas TrübnerAmerican Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.