Brooklyn by name [[electronic resource] ] : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names / / Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss |
Autore | Benardo Leonard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.7/23 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeissJennifer |
Soggetto topico | Names, Geographical - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8147-3906-7
1-4356-0047-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Northern Brooklyn -- 2. Downtown Brooklyn -- 3. South Brooklyn -- 4. North-Central Brooklyn -- 5. South-Central Brooklyn -- 6. Eastern Brooklyn -- 7. Southwest Brooklyn -- 8. Southeastern and Southern Brooklyn -- Illustration Sources -- Works Consulted -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452124903321 |
Benardo Leonard
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Brooklyn by name [[electronic resource] ] : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names / / Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss |
Autore | Benardo Leonard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.7/23 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WeissJennifer |
Soggetto topico | Names, Geographical - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
American
Brooklyns Listing alphabetically book captures current diverse history illustrated maps more most names organized photographs place prominent region richly than threads with |
ISBN |
0-8147-3906-7
1-4356-0047-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Northern Brooklyn -- 2. Downtown Brooklyn -- 3. South Brooklyn -- 4. North-Central Brooklyn -- 5. South-Central Brooklyn -- 6. Eastern Brooklyn -- 7. Southwest Brooklyn -- 8. Southeastern and Southern Brooklyn -- Illustration Sources -- Works Consulted -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778289103321 |
Benardo Leonard
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Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman |
Autore | Wellman Judith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.723 |
Soggetto topico | African Americans - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8147-4446-X
0-8147-2528-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Brooklyn’s promised land, weeksville, 1835–1910: “a model for places of much greater pretensions” -- 1. “Here will we take our stand”: weeksville’s origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770–1840 -- 2. “Owned and occupied by our own people”: weeksville’s growth: family, work, and community, 1840–1860 -- 3. “Shall we fly or shall we resist?”: from emigration to the civil war, 1850–1865 -- 4. “Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women”: politics, women’s activism, and the roots of progressive reform, 1865–1910 -- 5. “Cut through and gridironed by streets”: physical changes, 1860–1880 -- 6. “Part of this magically growing city”: weeksville’s growth and disappearance, 1880–1910 -- 7. “A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists”: weeksville, lost and found, 1910–2010 -- Notes -- Index -- About the author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910479863803321 |
Wellman Judith
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] | ||
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Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman |
Autore | Wellman Judith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.723 |
Soggetto topico | African Americans - New York (State) - New York - History |
ISBN |
0-8147-4446-X
0-8147-2528-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Brooklyn’s promised land, weeksville, 1835–1910: “a model for places of much greater pretensions” -- 1. “Here will we take our stand”: weeksville’s origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770–1840 -- 2. “Owned and occupied by our own people”: weeksville’s growth: family, work, and community, 1840–1860 -- 3. “Shall we fly or shall we resist?”: from emigration to the civil war, 1850–1865 -- 4. “Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women”: politics, women’s activism, and the roots of progressive reform, 1865–1910 -- 5. “Cut through and gridironed by streets”: physical changes, 1860–1880 -- 6. “Part of this magically growing city”: weeksville’s growth and disappearance, 1880–1910 -- 7. “A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists”: weeksville, lost and found, 1910–2010 -- Notes -- Index -- About the author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787147003321 |
Wellman Judith
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Come out swinging [[electronic resource] ] : the changing world of boxing in Gleason's gym / / Lucia Trimbur |
Autore | Trimbur Lucia <1975-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 796.8309747 |
Soggetto topico |
Boxing - New York (State) - New York - History
Gymnasiums - New York (State) - New York - History Athletic clubs - New York (State) - New York - History Boxers (Sports) - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4008-4606-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prominent Participants -- Preface -- Chapter One. Survival in a City Transformed: The Urban Boxing Gym in Postindustrial New York -- Chapter Two. Work without Wages -- Chapter Three. Tough Love and Intimacy in a Community of Men -- Chapter Four. Passing Time: The Expressive Culture of Everyday Gym Life -- Chapter Five. The Changing Politics of Gender -- Chapter Six. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and the Cultural Capital of Racial Difference -- Epilogue -- Methodological Appendix: Ethnographic Research in the Urban Gym -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462913903321 |
Trimbur Lucia <1975->
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2013 | ||
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Come out swinging [[electronic resource] ] : the changing world of boxing in Gleason's gym / / Lucia Trimbur |
Autore | Trimbur Lucia <1975-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 796.8309747 |
Soggetto topico |
Boxing - New York (State) - New York - History
Gymnasiums - New York (State) - New York - History Athletic clubs - New York (State) - New York - History Boxers (Sports) - New York (State) - New York - History |
ISBN | 1-4008-4606-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prominent Participants -- Preface -- Chapter One. Survival in a City Transformed: The Urban Boxing Gym in Postindustrial New York -- Chapter Two. Work without Wages -- Chapter Three. Tough Love and Intimacy in a Community of Men -- Chapter Four. Passing Time: The Expressive Culture of Everyday Gym Life -- Chapter Five. The Changing Politics of Gender -- Chapter Six. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and the Cultural Capital of Racial Difference -- Epilogue -- Methodological Appendix: Ethnographic Research in the Urban Gym -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787673403321 |
Trimbur Lucia <1975->
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A history of the city of Brooklyn and Kings county / / edited by Stephen M. Ostrander and Alexander Black |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brooklyn : , : Published by subscription, , 1874 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (2 volumes, plates) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 974.723 |
Collana | Genealogy & local history |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910137805203321 |
Brooklyn : , : Published by subscription, , 1874 | ||
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The new Brooklyn : what it takes to bring a city back / / Kay S. Hymowitz |
Autore | Hymowitz Kay S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina | 306.09747/23 |
Soggetto topico | Community development - New York - New Yok (State) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-5381-1611-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The old Brooklyn, part one -- The old Brooklyn, part two -- Park Slope: the new Brooklyn takes shape -- Haute hippie Williamsburg -- The Brooklyn Navy Yard: new Brooklyn's new manufacturing -- Bedford-Stuyvesant: a ghetto in transition--or is gentrification racist? -- Brownsville: the permanent ghetto -- Sunset Park: Chinese immigrants in blue sky Brooklyn -- West Indians in the promised borough -- Conclusion: recovering cities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151567803321 |
Hymowitz Kay S.
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017 | ||
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