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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

By: George G. Foster

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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

By: George G. Foster

First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum—the underground story—of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.

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262

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Univ of California Press

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052090947X

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9780520909472

Sports Business Management

Decision Making Around the Globe

By: George Foster,Norm O'Reilly,Antonio Dávila

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Sports Business Management

Decision Making Around the Globe

By: George Foster,Norm O'Reilly,Antonio Dávila

This new edition of a widely adopted textbook equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the sport industry. With a focus on management, strategy, marketing and finance, the decision-making approach of the book emphasizes key concepts while translating them into practice. Content specific to each of the vital stakeholders in the sport business is included. Foster, O’Reilly and Dávila present a set of modular chapters supported with international examples. Supplementary materials available to instructors include mini-cases, full case studies, activities, in-class lecture materials and exercises to help students apply the decision-making approach to real-world situations. The book includes content about sport organizations, such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, the European Premier Leagues and Major North American Professional Sport Leagues. Stanford cases are updated for the second edition and entirely new chapters cover the latest topics, including esports, sports gambling, fantasy sports and crisis management. This is an ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of sports business and management.

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686

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Routledge

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1000065855

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9781000065855

History of Pittsburgh Volume 2

By: George Thornton Fleming

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History of Pittsburgh Volume 2

By: George Thornton Fleming

The selection of Mr. Fleming to prepare this history of Pittsburgh, and the region round about, was most fortunate for the city. He was not only a sturdy grubber after facts but had the ability to dress them up in pleasing style and set them in graceful order. This book is valuable not only as a narrative of historic events, but as a compendium of facts relating to men and matters, events and happenings pertaining to the triumphant growth of Pittsburgh, its institutions, and its fame. It is as encyclopedic as entertaining and facilitates the finding of whatsoever data that may be desired. It will be very hard to find another book on the history of Pittsburgh that is as detailed as Mr. Fleming’s. This is volume two out of two.

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338

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849674371

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9783849674373

A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y: Its Battles, Marches and Army Movements

By: Franklin Sawyer,George A. Groot

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A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y: Its Battles, Marches and Army Movements

By: Franklin Sawyer,George A. Groot

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368860771

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9783368860776

Book's by George G. Foster

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

Sports Business Management

Sports Business Management

History of Pittsburgh Volume 2

History of Pittsburgh Volume 2

A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y: Its Battles, Marches and Army Movements

A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y: Its Battles, Marches and Army Movements

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