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The physiology of New York boarding-houses /
The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. 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. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding |
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| Notas: | Originally published: New York : Mason Brothers, 1857. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200). |
| ISBN: | 9780813546216 0813546214 1281958786 9781281958785 9786611958787 6611958789 |