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Newark's Little Italy

The Vanished First Ward

By: Michael Immerso

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Newark's Little Italy

The Vanished First Ward

By: Michael Immerso

Michael Immerso traces the history of the First Ward from the arrival of the first Italian in the 1870s until 1953 when the district was uprooted to make way for urban renewal. Richly illustrated with photographs culled from the albums and shoeboxes in the private collections of hundreds of former First Ward families from all across the United States, the book documents the evolution of the district from a small immigrant quarter into a complex Italian-American neighborhood that thrived during the first half of this century. Book jacket.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813527570

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9780813527574

Coney Island

The People's Playground

By: Michael Immerso

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Coney Island

The People's Playground

By: Michael Immerso

This is the first new history of Coney Island in half a century, tracing its evolution and cultural impact as an amusement center from its earliest development as a seaside resort to the present day Mermaid Parade. Over 100 photos.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813531381

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9780813531380

Coney Island

The People's Playground

By: Michael Immerso

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Coney Island

The People's Playground

By: Michael Immerso

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Newark's Little Italy

The Vanished First Ward

By: Michael Immerso

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The Vanished First Ward

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Bush League, Big City

The Brooklyn Cyclones, Staten Island Yankees, and the New York-Penn League

By: Michael Sokolow

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Bush League, Big City

The Brooklyn Cyclones, Staten Island Yankees, and the New York-Penn League

By: Michael Sokolow

Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s. It also illuminates the history of the New York-Penn League, America’s oldest and longest-running minor league, from its inception in 1939 until its abrupt contraction by Major League Baseball in 2020. With an eye for details and firsthand accounts by many of the baseball people involved, Michael Sokolow tells the story of two franchises that went in very different directions, as the Cyclones achieved astronomical success while Staten Island’s ‘Baby Bombers’ sank under the weight of debt and recriminations. Along the way, the book visits small communities in upstate New York, New England, and Canada, introduces the multimillionaires who came to dominate small-time baseball ownership, and tells the tale of two of the most expensive minor-league baseball stadiums ever built. It also sheds light on the complex, behind-the-scenes influence of New York City politics, as the indomitable will of Mayor Rudy Giuliani reshaped the geography of both the city and professional baseball. Bush League, Big City is a compelling examination of both the power and limits of nostalgia in a sport that is increasingly focused on the bottom line.

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State University of New York Press

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1438493053

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In History's Grip

Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy

By: Michael Kimmage

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In History's Grip

Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy

By: Michael Kimmage

In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's twentieth-century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny. In History's Grip is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth's inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer—history. In so doing, the book brings together the two halves of Roth's decades-long career: the first featuring characters who live outside of history's grip; the second, characters entrapped in historical patterns beyond their ken and control.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783675

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The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

By: Michael Kalisch

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The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

By: Michael Kalisch

How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors – including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole – this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.

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Manchester University Press

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1526156342

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The Birth of a Jungle

Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture

By: Michael Lundblad

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The Birth of a Jungle

Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture

By: Michael Lundblad

According to the law of the jungle, the behavior of wild animals can be equated with natural human instincts not only for competition and reproduction, but also for violence and exploitation. Drawing on numerous novels and cultural events at the turn of the twentieth century, The Birth of a Jungle examines how the characteristics and imagery of wild animals were evoked to explore a wide range of human behaviors, including homosexuality, labor exploitation, and the lynching of African Americans. Throughout the study, Michael Lundblad emphasizes what he terms "the discourse of the jungle": Darwinist-Freudian constructions of "the human" and "the animal" that redefined various behaviors in relation to animal instincts. With nuanced, attentive readings, Lundblad reveals how these formulations of the human animal, despite reigning critical interpretations, were often contested rather than reinforced in Progressive-Era texts. Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle" and fiction by Jack London serve as opportunities to examine changing attitudes toward sexuality and queer desire. Works like Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth and Frank Norris's The Octopus offer insights into another type of jungle: the capitalist marketplace. The real-life electrocution of a circus elephant at Coney Island and Upton Sinclair's muckraking classic, The Jungle, inform the subsequent discussion of animalized class warfare. Understandings of race and evolution are explored through the work of William James, Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes, and the role of William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Engagingly written and cogently argued, The Birth of a Jungle reveals the significance of animality in relation to the history of sexuality, literary naturalism, and critical race studies, while highlighting how the discourse of the jungle remains a disturbing yet powerful presence in today's culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0199917582

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9780199917587

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part II Vol 1

By: Michael Hunter,Edward B Davis

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The Works of Robert Boyle, Part II Vol 1

By: Michael Hunter,Edward B Davis

Including all Robert Boyle's published works, this is the final seven volumes of a 14-volume set. All texts are fully annotated and comprehensively indexed. Works originally in Latin are presented in their contemporary English translations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040243991

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9781040243992

The New Americans

How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

By: Michael Barone

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The New Americans

How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

By: Michael Barone

Many Americans feel swamped by immigrants with alien cultures, languages, and customs apparently flooding into our country.

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366

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Simon and Schuster

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1596987278

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9781596987272

Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture

By: Michael Caesar

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Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture

By: Michael Caesar

In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance - theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play - make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and premeditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing down what is spoken is partly technical, but also political and philosophical. How do young writers represent the spoken language of their contemporaries? What are the rules governing the transcription of oral evidence in fiction and non-fiction? Is the relationship between oral and written always a hierarchical one? Does the textualization of the oral destroy, more than it commemorates or preserves, the oral itself? Twelve wide-ranging essays, the majority on contemporary Italian theatre and literature, explore these questions in the most up-to-date account of orality and literacy in modern Italian culture yet produced. With the contributions: Michael Caesar, Marina Spunta- Introduction Michael Caesar- Voice, Vision and Orality: Notes on Reading Adriana Cavarero Arturo Tosi- Histrionic Transgressions: The Dario Fo-Commedia dell'Arte Relationship Revisited Gerardo Guccini- Le poetiche del 'teatro narrazione' fra 'scrittura oralizzante' e oralita-che-si-fa-testo Richard Andrews- Composing, Reciting, Inscribing and Transcribing Playtexts in the Community Theatre of Monticchiello David Forgacs- An Oral Renarration of a Photoromance, 1960 Alessandra Broccolini- Identita locali e giochi popolari in Italia tra oralita e scrittura Marina Spunta- The Facets of Italian Orality: An Overview of the Recent Debate Kate Litherland- Literature and Youth in the 1990s: Orality and the Written in Tiziano Scarpa's Cos'e questo fracasso? and Caliceti and Mozzi's Quello che ho da dirvi Elena Porciani- Note su oralita e narrazione inattendibile Marco Codebo- Voice and Events in Manlio Calegari's Comunisti e partigiani: Genova 1942-1945 Hanna Serkowska- Oralita o stile? La trasmissione orale e le modalita narrative ne La Storia di Elsa Morante Catherine O'Rawe- Orality, Microhistory and Memory: Gesualdo Bufalino and Claudio Magris between Narrative and History

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Routledge

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1351196014

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9781351196017

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I Vol 3

By: Michael Hunter,Edward B Davis

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The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I Vol 3

By: Michael Hunter,Edward B Davis

Including all Robert Boyle's published works, this is the first seven volumes of a 14-volume set. All texts are fully annotated and comprehensively indexed. Works originally in Latin are presented in their contemporary English translations.

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1040247040

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Medical Practitioners and Law in Fifteenth Century London

By: Michael T. Walton,Phyllis J. Walton

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Medical Practitioners and Law in Fifteenth Century London

By: Michael T. Walton,Phyllis J. Walton

A discussion of fifteenth century London medical men (physician, surgeons, and barber-surgeons), their guilds, personal lives, lawsuits, etc... based on various legal records.

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143031527X

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Newark's Little Italy

Newark's Little Italy

Coney Island

Coney Island

Coney Island

Coney Island

Newark's Little Italy

Newark's Little Italy

Bush League, Big City

Bush League, Big City

In History's Grip

In History's Grip

The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

The Birth of a Jungle

The Birth of a Jungle

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part II Vol 1

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part II Vol 1

The New Americans

The New Americans

Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture

Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I Vol 3

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I Vol 3

Medical Practitioners and Law in Fifteenth Century London

Medical Practitioners and Law in Fifteenth Century London

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