Author | : Robert Roberts |
Publisher | : Manchester : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Roberts |
Publisher | : Manchester : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Roberts |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1990-07-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 014193235X |
A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.
Author | : Robert Roberts |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1997-08-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781901341010 |
In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.
Author | : Jacob A. Riis |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486157067 |
Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions in schools and tenements.
Author | : Tyler Anbinder |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439137749 |
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America.
Author | : Mike Davis |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2007-09-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1844671607 |
Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
Author | : Arthur Morrison |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0897336534 |
This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.
Author | : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1983-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226989453 |
"This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century
Author | : Jacob Riis |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 145850042X |