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New York night : the mystique and its history
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New York night : the mystique and its history

Mark Caldwell

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New Amsterdam noir : the dark nights of Dutch Manhattan
Rattle watch nights : city streets after sundown, from Peter Stuyvesant to the early republic
Hearthside and rushlight : old New York at home
Broadway after dark : pleasures and hours of federal New York
Bowery gals will come out to-night? : nighttime on the Bowery before the Civil War
Under the rain of gaslights : from the Civil War to the gilded and gruesome 1870s
Electric costumes and brass knuckles : glamour, crime, sports, and the commercialization of night in the 1890s
Mr. Dieter vanishes, November 1923 : the Volstead Act, jazz, and Earl Carroll's Vanities
From poorhouse to penthouse and back : at home, homeless, and on the town in mid-1930's
When the lights went out : World War II, the 1950's and the suburbanization of night
Full moon over the Stonewall : the gay epiphany, discomania, and the surfacing of hidden night.

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