The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City [New ed.] 0691130485, 9780691130484

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City 9780691216287

In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and t

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New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s 9780814763735

Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street

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Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York 9781501721366

By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese

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Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City 9781503621947

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Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York 9780812206111

This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile f

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Negro Illegitimacy in New York City 9780231887076

Presents descriptive material with regard to some of the problems created by illegitimacy among a certain group of Afric

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Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York 9781472432575, 9781315579467

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New York: State and City 9781501727146

Revised and updated, the new edition of Tenure, Discrimination, and the Courts provides a lucid overview of the case law

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The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals 9780814748527

Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York

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New York Glory: Religions in the City 9780814790229

Is New York a post-secular city? Massive immigration and cultural changes have created an increasingly complex social la

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