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LEADER: 01918cam 2200301 a 4500
001 2005049039
003 DLC
005 20050915161729.0
008 050512s2005 nyu b 000 0deng
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050 00 $aF128.3$b.C35 2005
082 00 $a974.7/1$222
100 1 $aCaldwell, Mark.
245 10 $aNew York night :$bthe mystique and its history /$cMark Caldwell.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$cc2005.
300 $a404 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 378-390).
505 0 $aNew 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.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aNight$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aStreet life$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.