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Matrimonial Brokerage in the Metropolis ...
Author | : Reporter of the New York press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Marriage |
ISBN | : |
Intended as an exposé if fraudulent marriage brokers in New York City, there is also much in the way of high-life and low-life incident and humorous scenes; the final chapter includes several purported conversations with Emma Cunningham, who has been acquitted of murder in connection with the violent death of her erstwhile lover, Harvey Burdell.
The Unbounded Community
Author | : Kenneth A. Scherzer |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822398753 |
Stick ball, stoop sitting, pickle barrel colloquys: The neighborhood occupies a warm place in our cultural memory—a place that Kenneth A. Scherzer contends may have more to do with ideology and nostalgia than with historical accuracy. In this remarkably detailed analysis of neighborhood life in New York City between 1830 and 1875, Scherzer gives the neighborhood its due as a complex, richly textured social phenomenon and helps to clarify its role in the evolution of cities. After a critical examination of recent historical renderings of neighborhood life, Scherzer focuses on the ecological, symbolic, and social aspects of nineteenth-century community life in New York City. Employing a wide array of sources, from census reports and church records to police blotters and brothel guides, he documents the complex composition of neighborhoods that defy simple categorization by class or ethnicity. From his account, the New York City neighborhood emerges as a community in flux, born out of the chaos of May Day, the traditional moving day. The fluid geography and heterogeneity of these neighborhoods kept most city residents from developing strong local attachments. Scherzer shows how such weak spatial consciousness, along with the fast pace of residential change, diminished the community function of the neighborhood. New Yorkers, he suggests, relied instead upon the "unbounded community," a collection of friends and social relations that extended throughout the city. With pointed argument and weighty evidence, The Unbounded Community replaces the neighborhood of nostalgia with a broader, multifaceted conception of community life. Depicting the neighborhood in its full scope and diversity, the book will enhance future forays into urban history.
Consent
Author | : Pamela Susan Haag |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501725408 |
Whom, over the past two centuries, has society construed as sexual "victims"? Where and when did the notion of consent—so crucial for law and politics today—emerge? In this brilliantly insightful work, Pamela Susan Haag traces the evolution of public wisdom on some of society's most private and controversial matters. At once an investigation of social history, popular culture, legal doctrine, and political theory, her book shows how in contemporary America the history of sexual rights is inextricably intertwined with that of liberalism. Haag examines the nineteenth-century obsession with the perils of seduction and twentieth-century disputes over white slavery, arranged marriages, interracial relationships, and rape. The history of heterosexual modernity and identity must, she argues, be viewed as a crucial component of a much larger historical narrative—that of the ways in which individual freedom and citizenship have been continually redefined in American liberal culture. She illuminates the development of liberalism from its "classic" stage that ended after the post-Reconstruction era to a "modern" version that came to fruition with the judicial acceptance of the right to privacy. Finally, she shows how debates over the meaning of heterosexual consent and violence contributed to this transformation.
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author | : Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs |
ISBN | : |
The Knickerbocker
Author | : Charles Fenno Hoffman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
ISBN | : |