The Classic Slum
Author | : Robert Roberts |
Publisher | : Manchester : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Tyler Anbinder |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439137749 |
Nineteenth-century NYC’s most dynamic and dangerous neighborhood comes vividly to life in this “careful, intelligent, and sympathetic history” (The New York Times Book Review). Located in today’s Chinatown, Five Points was home to poor immigrants and other marginalized communities. It witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same time it was a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, and boxing matches. It was also the home of meeting halls for the political clubs and the machine politicians who would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archaeological digs, Anbinder has written the first-ever history of Five Points, the neighborhood that was a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. 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. A New York Times Notable Book
Author | : Jacob August Riis |
Publisher | : Ferguson Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : 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 | : William Foote Whyte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : L.J. Davis |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590173945 |
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he finds a job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his marriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful crumbling mansion in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn, and against all advice, not to mention his wife’s will, sinks his every penny into buying it. He quits his job, moves in, and spends day and night on demolition and construction. At last he has a mission: he will dig up the lost history of his house; he will restore it to its past grandeur. He will make good on everything that’s gone wrong with his life, and he will even murder to do it.
Author | : Gregory David Roberts |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 945 |
Release | : 2004-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429908270 |
Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of contemporary Bombay—the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam. “It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.” An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.