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New York night : the mystique and its history
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- ISBN: 9780743242769
- ISBN: 0743242769
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Physical Description:
404 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Scribner, c2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-390) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | New Amsterdam noir : the dark nights of Dutch Manhattan -- Rattle watch nights : city streets after sundown, from Peter Stuyvesant to the early republic -- Hearthside and rushlight : old New York at home -- Broadway after dark : pleasures and hours of federal New York -- Bowery gals will come out to-night? : nighttime on the Bowery before the Civil War -- Under the rain of gaslights : from the Civil War to the gilded and gruesome 1870s -- Electric costumes and brass knuckles : glamour, crime, sports, and the commercialization of night in the 1890s -- Mr. Dieter vanishes, November 1923 : the Volstead Act, jazz, and Earl Carroll's Vanities -- From poorhouse to penthouse and back : at home, homeless, and on the town in mid-1930's -- When the lights went out : World War II, the 1950's and the suburbanization of night -- Full moon over the Stonewall : the gay epiphany, discomania, and the surfacing of hidden night. |
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| Howe Library | 974.71 CAL | 31254002384648 | Lower level | Available | - |