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African American migration patterns
American urban ethnography
apartment house history
Author_Gerald W. McFarland
boarding house culture
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changing patterns of social interaction
city park social behavior
civic activism and local politics
class conflict in urban spaces
class-based moral reform
conflict and cooperation across class lines
cultural geography of cities
early twentieth century neighborhoods
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ethnic enclaves in American cities
everyday life in historical America
gentrification antecedents
grassroots political rivalries
historical sociology of place
immigrant community life
industrial era social change
interracial community relations
Irish American urban communities
Italian American settlement patterns
metropolitan modernization
microhistory of American neighborhoods
middle class morality campaigns
neighborhood power dynamics
origins of artistic communities
political reform movements
Protestant social influence
public space social norms
roots of countercultural movements
saloon culture in American cities
shared crisis and community solidarity
social control and respectability politics
social tensions in metropolitan areas
spatial politics of cities
street life in historic cities
student and intellectual subcultures
student culture in historic districts
transformation of city life
urban cultural history
urban identity formation
urban leisure and recreation
urban policing and reform
working class organizing
Product details
- ISBN 9781558495029
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 161 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2005
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century In the popular imagination, New York City's Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-garde artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. Yet a century ago the Village was a much different kind of place: a mixed-class, multiethnic neighborhood teeming with the energy and social tensions of a rapidly changing America, Gerald W. McFarland reconstructs this world 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. McFarland examines how these Villagers, so divided along class and ethnic lines, interacted with one another. He shows how clashing expectations about what constituted proper behavior in the neighborhood's public spaces - especially streets, parks, and saloons - often led to intergroup conflict, political rivalries, and campaigns by the more privileged Villagers to impose middle-class mores on their working-class neighbors. Occasionally, however, a crisis or common problem led residents to overlook their differences and cooperate across class and ethnic lines. Throughout the book, McFarland connects the evolution of Village life to the profound transformations taking place in American society at large during the same years.
GERALD W. MCFARLAND is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His books include A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West; The ""Counterfeit"" Man: The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case; and Mugwumps, Morals, and Politics, 1880-1920.
