New York night : the mystique and its history / Mark Caldwell.

Author/creator Caldwell, Mark
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Scribner, ©2005.
Descriptionviii, 404 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Night--Social aspects. --New York (State). --New York. --History.
Street life--New York (State). --New York. --History.
City and town life--New York (State). --New York. --History.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

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 horrors of federal New York -- "Bowery gals will you 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 the mid-1930s -- When the lights went out : World War II, the 1950s, and the suburbanization of night -- Full moon over the Stonewall : the gay epiphany, discomania, and the surfacing of hidden night.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [376]-390) and index.
LCCN 2005049039
ISBN0743242769
ISBN9780743242769

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks F128.3 .C35 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold