HST 658 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthony Comstock, New York Life Insurance Company, Rodent
22 Jan 2018
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Lecture 2 "vice": policing and legislating sexual activities. - no: the term was used and applied by people from outside those neighborhoods. How might city dwellers in new york, chicago, london, manchester or toronto, in. -word of mouth -- at work, in the streets, etc. Another source were types of guidebooks to cities -- they often had titles like "lights and. Shadows of new york life" or "darkness and daylight in new york". - read a little from lights and shadows, 1872. This was a popular genre of writing about cities. Such publications were both guidebooks and sensationalist accounts of rapidly growing cities, books read by people who might never make it to new york or other city depicted ("armchair travellers"). Big cities were fascinating, frightening, and enticing places -- drawing more and more people to them, producing more of a nation"s wealth, and with spectacular buildings and infrastructure not seen in small towns let alone the rural areas.
