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For the two-semester U.S. history survey course. Offers students
insight into how diverse communities and different regions have
shaped America's past. Out of Many reveals the ethnic, geographical
and economic diversity of the United States by examining the
individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus
on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps
students understand the textured and varied history that has
produced the increasing complexity of America.
For the two-semester U.S. history survey course. Offers students
insight into how diverse communities and different regions have
shaped America's past. Out of Many reveals the ethnic, geographical
and economic diversity of the United States by examining the
individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus
on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps
students understand the textured and varied history that has
produced the increasing complexity of America.
For the two-semester U.S. history survey course. Offers students
insight into how diverse communities and different regions have
shaped America's past. Out of Many reveals the ethnic, geographical
and economic diversity of the United States by examining the
individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus
on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps
students understand the textured and varied history that has
produced the increasing complexity of America.
The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban
America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed
historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history
literature added to the canon since the publication of the second
edition. The authors' extensively revised introductions and the
fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the
preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on
the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects
of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change
that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as
technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt
cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are
examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available
that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the
most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
Before publishing his pioneering book "How the Other Half Lives"--a
photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's
tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's
population--Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the
United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely
surviving on his carpentry skills until he landed a job as a
muckraking reporter. These early experiences provided Riis with an
understanding of what it was like to be poor in the immigrant
communities that populated New York's slums, and it was this
empathy that would shine through in his iconic photos.
With "Rediscovering Jacob Riis," art historian Bonnie Yochelson
and historian Daniel Czitrom place Jacob Riis's images in
historical context even as they expose a clear sightline to the
present. In the first half of their book, Czitrom explores Riis's
reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age
New York: its new immigrants, its political machines, its fiercely
competitive journalism, its evangelical reformers, and its labor
movement. In delving into Riis's intellectual education and the
lasting impact of "How the Other Half Lives," Czitrom shows that
though Riis argued for charity, not sociopolitical justice, the
empathy that drove his work continues to inspire urban reformers
today.
In the second half of the book, Yochelson describes for the first
time Riis's photographic practice: his initial reliance on amateur
photographers to take the photographs he needed, his own use of the
camera, and then his collecting of photographs by professionals,
who by 1900 were documenting social reform efforts for government
agencies and charities. She argues that while Riis is rightly
considered a revolutionary in the history of photography, he was
not a photographic artist. Instead, Riis was a writer and lecturer
who first harnessed the power of photography to affect social
change.
As staggering inequality continues to be an urgent political
topic, this book, illustrated with nearly seventy of Riis's
photographs, will serve as a stunning reminder of what has changed,
and what has not.
On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H.
Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian
Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons
in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally
corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its
Tammany Hall politicians were"a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and
libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a
self-righteous "blatherskite," Parkhurst resolved to prove his
case. The bespectacled minister descended his pulpit and in
disguise visited gin joints and brothels, taking notes and
gathering evidence. Two years later, his findings forced the New
York State Senate to investigate the New York Police Department.
The Lexow Committee heard testimony from nearly 700 witnesses, who
revealed in shocking-and headline-dominating-detail just how deeply
the NYPD was involved in, and benefited from, the vice economy.
Parkhurst's campaign had kick-started the Progressive Movement. New
York Exposed offers a narrative history of the first major crusade
to clean up Gotham. Daniel Czitrom does full justice to this
spellbinding story by telling it within the larger contexts of
national politics, poverty, patronage, vote fraud and vote
suppression, and police violence. The effort to root out corrupt
cops and crooked politicians morphed into something much more
profound: a public reckoning over what New York-and the American
city-had become since the Civil War. Animated by as vivid a cast as
New York has ever produced, the book's key characters include
Police Superintendent Thomas Byrnes and Inspector Alexander
"Clubber" Williams, the nation's most famous cops, as well as
anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman, the zealous prosecutor John
W. Goff, and an array of politicos, immigrant leaders, labor
bosses, prostitutes, show-business entrepreneurs, counterfeiters,
and reformers and muckrakers determined to change business as
usual. New York Exposed offers an unforgettable portrait of a city
in a truly transformative moment.
In an incendiary 1892 sermon given at the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Charles Parkhurst declared New York's
municipal life to be deplorable and corrupt, controlled by
"polluted harpies feeding day and night on its quivering vitals."
While city officials denounced him as a "blatherskite" and a
"cowardly defamer," Parkhurst set about gathering a slew of
evidence to present in a later series of sermons that captivated
city residents and the press alike. Parkhurst believed that only a
Christian revival, combined with a new, non-partisan approach to
governing, could save New York. Disguised as an out of towner, he
toured New York's underworld, gathering evidence which he presented
in sermons. Two years later, his crusade led the state senate to
found the Lexow Committee, whose comprehensive investigation
(including testimonies from nearly 700 witnesses) revealed the dark
underside of New York's vice economy and the police force's
complicity in it, effectively launching the Progressive movement.
Animated by a colorful cast of characters ranging from the bosses
of Tammany Hall to prostitutes and counterfeiters, Daniel Czitrom
offers a vivid account of a formative time when muckraking
journalism and urban reform were just beginning to alter the
American social and political landscape. As Czitrom reveals, the
relationship between New York politics and the NYPD affected not
only the life of the city, but of the nation as a whole.
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