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The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age
Title
The Decorated Tenement [electronic resource] : How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age / Zachary J. Violette.
ISBN
1452960453
9781452960456
9781517904128 (hc : alk. paper)
9781517904135 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Boston University, 2014) under the title: The decorated tenement : working-class housing in Boston and New York, 1860-1910.
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 History
Other formats
Online version: Violette, Zachary J., author. Decorated tenement Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : situating the decorated tenement
Dens, rookeries, and hovels : the slum landscape and stereotype
The better sort of tenement : competing notions of improvement and living standards
Fantastic shapes and unfamiliar profiles : why the tenement façade matters
Skin builders and plan mills : the tenement business as immigrant enterprise
Destroying the rookeries : how the tenement was designed and built
A new style of poverty : understanding working-class taste and material culture
A heartless irony : cultural conflict and the tenement reform movement
Epilogue : the afterlife of the decorated tenement.
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