In the popular imagination, New York City's Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-grade artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. Yet as Gerald W. McFarland shows in this richly detailed study, a century ago the Village was a much different kind of place: a mixed-class, multi-ethnic neighborhood teeming with the energy and social tensions of a rapidly changing America. McFarland begins his reconstruction of turn-of ...
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In the popular imagination, New York City's Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-grade artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. Yet as Gerald W. McFarland shows in this richly detailed study, a century ago the Village was a much different kind of place: a mixed-class, multi-ethnic neighborhood teeming with the energy and social tensions of a rapidly changing America. McFarland begins his reconstruction of turn-of-the-century Greenwich Village with vivid descriptions of the major groups that resided within its boundaries: the Italian immigrants and African Americans to the south, the Irish Americans to the west, the well-to-do Protestants to the north, and the New York University students, middle-class professionals, and artists and writers who lived in apartment buildings and boarding houses on or near Washington Square. He then examines how these Villagers, so divided along class and ethnic lines, interacted with one another. He finds that clashing expectations about what constituted proper behavior in the neighborhood's public spaces - especially streets, parks, and salo
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Very Good in Good jacket. Inscribed and signed by author to previous owner. No markings of text noted; modest wear of book. Jacket with spine faded, else mild wear.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author 2001 First Edition. AUTHOR SIGNED. FINE in FINE dust jacket. McFarland's inscription on the half-title page, in green ink, reads "For Steven Watson: Enjoy! Gerry McFarland 9/29/01." This is a crisp, clean, otherwise unmarked and tightly bound copy. In color pictorial jacket-clean with no tears, chips or creases and in a clear archival protector. Binding and hinges tight and straight. A fascinating history of New York City's Greenwich Village, neighborhood by neighborhood, as it entered the twentieth century. Illustrated with maps and B&W archival photos. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2"; xii + 272 text pages.
