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The physiology of New York boarding-houses

Gunn, ThomasFaflik, David(Introduction by)Faflik, David(Edited by)
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Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, ""The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses"", explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. ""Physiology"" is at once an essential introduction to a 'lost' world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's 'urban turn' during the decades leading up to the Civil War.

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Rutgers University Press
0813544394 / 9780813544397
Hardback
30/12/2008
United States
English
248 p.
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