Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918

by Gerald W. McFarland

Book Overview

In the popular imagination, New York City's Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-garde artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. Yet a century ago the Village was a much different kind of place: a mixed-class, multiethnic neighborhood teeming with the energy and social tensions of a rapidly changing America. Gerald W. McFarland reconstructs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495029
• ISBN13: 9781558495029
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher