Retail Mammon; Or, The Pawnbroker's Daughter
Author | : Henry Hayman |
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Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Henry Hayman |
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Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Melanie Tebbutt |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Robert M. Fogelson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 811 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300133405 |
Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: “Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.” —Booklist Written by one of this country’s foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown—and the way Americans thought about downtown—changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, Robert M. Fogelson brings downtown to life, first as the business district, then as the central business district, and finally as just another business district. His book vividly recreates the long-forgotten battles over subways and skyscrapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And it provides a fresh, often startling perspective on elevated highways, parking bans, urban redevelopment, and other controversial issues. This groundbreaking book will be a revelation to scholars, city planners, policymakers, and anyone interested in American cities and American history. “A thorough and accomplished history.” —The Washington Post Book World "Superlative . . . a vital contribution to the study of American life.” —Publishers Weekly “A superbly thorough analysis of the causes of inner-city blight, congestion, and economic decline in mid-20th century urban America.” —Library Journal Includes photographs
Author | : William Booth |
Publisher | : W. Bryce |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Agricultural colonies |
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Author | : Werner Sombart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
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Author | : Alex Hortis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1639363920 |
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel was inspired by her trials. The Witch of New York is the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. An origin story of how America became addicted to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials, The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today.
Author | : Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Proverbs |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Wendy A. Woloson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226905691 |
The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson argues, by regularly pawning household objects to supplement inadequate wages. Nonetheless, businessmen, reformers, and cultural critics claimed that pawnshops promoted vice, and employed anti-Semitic stereotypes to cast their proprietors as greedy and cold-hearted. Using personal correspondence, business records, and other rich archival sources to uncover the truth behind the rhetoric, Woloson brings to life a diverse cast of characters and shows that pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd businessmen, often from humble origins, who possessed sophisticated knowledge of a wide range of goods in various resale markets. A much-needed new look at a misunderstood institution, In Hock is both a first-rate academic study of a largely ignored facet of the capitalist economy and a resonant portrait of the economic struggles of generations of Americans.
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Democracy |
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