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100 1 $aSante, Luc.
245 10 $aLow life :$blures and snares of old New York /$cLuc Sante.
250 $a1st Farrar, Straus Giroux pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus Giroux,$c2003.
300 $axxii, 432 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 381-402) and index.
505 00 $gPart 1.$tLandscape --$gPart 2.$tSporting Life --$gPart 3.$tThe Arm --$gPart 4.$tThe Invisible City.
520 $aLuc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era's opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn't work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city's tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life provides an arresting and entertaining view of what New York was actually like in its salad days. But it's more than simpy a book about New York. It's one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written--an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropplois, which has much to say not only about New York's past but about the present and future of all cities.
651 0 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aMarginality, Social$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
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