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The Resource New York night : the mystique and its history, Mark Caldwell

New York night : the mystique and its history, Mark Caldwell

Label
New York night : the mystique and its history
Title
New York night
Title remainder
the mystique and its history
Statement of responsibility
Mark Caldwell
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Caldwell, Mark
Dewey number
974.7/1
Index
no index present
LC call number
F128.3
LC item number
.C35 2005
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Night
  • Street life
  • City and town life
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • New York (N.Y.)
Label
New York night : the mystique and its history, Mark Caldwell
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Contents
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
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 404 p.
Isbn
9780743242769
Lccn
2005049039
Other control number
9780743242769
System control number
ocm60454882
Label
New York night : the mystique and its history, Mark Caldwell
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Contents
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
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 404 p.
Isbn
9780743242769
Lccn
2005049039
Other control number
9780743242769
System control number
ocm60454882

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