Greenwich village: culture and counter culture /
edited by Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz
- 420 pages: illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes index.
"A maze of crooked streets" : village landscapes / Rick Beard, Jan Seidler Ramirez -- Washington Square in the growing city / Thomas Bender -- Straight down Christopher Street : a tale of the oldest street in Greenwich Village / Christine Boyer, editor -- The village under ground : the archaeology of the Greenwich Mews / Joan H. Geismar -- Greek and gothic side by side : architecture in the village / Sarah Bradford Landau -- Washington Arch and the changing neighborhood / Mindy Cantor -- "Bourgeoisie and bohemians" : village peoples / Rick Beard, Jan Seidler Ramirez -- The Washington Square neighborhood, 1830-1855 / Bayrd Still -- Crossroads or settlement? The black freedmen's community in historic Greenwich Village, 1644-1855 / Thelma Wills Foote -- Washington Square : a woman's world / Carol Ruth Berkin -- Italian neighbors / Josephine Gattuso Hendin -- Long-haired men and short-haired women : building a gay world in the heart of bohemia / George Chauncey -- The beat generation in the village / Barry Miles -- "Radical agendas" : village politics / Rick Beard, Jan Seidler Ramirez. The artisans and builders of nineteenth-century New York : the case of the 1834 stonecutters' riot / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- The culture of contradition : the Greenwich Village rebellion / Leslie Fishbein -- Disturbers of the peace : radicals in Greenwich Village, 1920-1930 / Daniel Aaron -- The radical women of Greenwich Village : from Crystal Eastman to Eleanor Roosevelt / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- "A spiritual zone of mind" : village culture / Rick Beard, Jan Seidler Ramirez -- Cultural moorings in the nineteenth-century village / Paul R. Baker -- Greenwich Village writers / Alfred Kazin -- The Jamesian house of fiction / Denis Donoghue -- "Something glorius" : Greenwich Village and the theater / Brooks McNamara -- Avant-garde artists of Greenwich Village / Irving Sandler -- "Greenwich thrillage" : village commerce / Rick Beard, Jan Seidler Ramirez -- Greenwich Village nightlife, 1910-1950 / Lewis Erenberg -- The tourist trade takes hold / Jan Seidler Ramirez.
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