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Approximately 300 daily and weekly newspapers flourished in New York before the Civil War. A majority of these newspapers, even those that proclaimed independence of party, were motivated by political conviction and often local conflicts. Their editors and writers jockeyed for government office and influence. Political infighting and their related maneuvers dominated the popular press, and these political and economic agendas led in turn to exploitation of art and art exhibitions. Humbug traces the relationships, class animosities, gender biases, and racial projections that drove the terms of art criticism, from the emergence of the penny press to the Civil War.The inexpensive “penny” papers that appeared in the 1830s relied on advertising to survive. Sensational stories, satire, and breaking news were the key to selling papers on the streets. Coverage of local politicians, markets, crime, and personalities, including artists and art exhibitions, became the penny papers’ lifeblood. These cheap papers, though unquestionably part of the period’s expanding capitalist economy, offered socialists, working-class men, bohemians, and utopianists a forum in which they could propose new models for American art and society and tear down existing ones.Arguing that the politics of the antebellum press affected the meaning of American art in ways that have gone unrecognized, Humbug covers the changing politics and rhetoric of this criticism. Author Wendy Katz demonstrates how the penny press’s drive for a more egalitarian society affected the taste and values that shaped art, and how the politics of their art criticism changed under pressure from nativists, abolitionists, and expansionists. Chapters explore James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald and its attack on aristocratic monopolies on art; the penny press’s attack on the American Art-Union, an influential corporation whose Board purchased artworks from living artists, exhibited them in a free gallery, and then distributed them in an annual five-dollar lottery; exposés of the fraudulent trade in Old Masters works; and the efforts of socialists, freethinkers, and bohemians to reject the authority of the past.

Art criticism --- History --- American Art. --- Antebellum. --- Art criticism. --- Civil War. --- Humbug. --- Newspapers. --- Penny press. --- Political parties. --- Politics. --- Working-class.

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Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fourteen acres of northern Manhattan farmland in 1841, he set in motion a chain of events that moved forward inexorably to the streetscape that emerged seven decades later. The story of how that happened makes up the pages of The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It.This fully illustrated history peels back the many layers of a rural society evolving into an urban community, enlivened by the people who propelled it forward: property owners, tenants, laborers, and servants. The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot tells the intricate tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today.A longtime evangelist for Manhattan’s Audubon Park neighborhood, author Matthew Spady delves deep into the lives of the two families most responsible over time for the anomalous arrangement of today’s streetscape: the Audubons and the Grinnells. Buoyed by his extensive research, Spady reveals the darker truth behind John James Audubon (1785–1851), a towering patriarch who consumed the lives of his family members in pursuit of his own goals. He then narrates how fifty years after Audubon’s death, George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) and his siblings found themselves the owners of extensive property that was not yielding sufficient income to pay taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Like the Audubons, they planned an exit strategy for controlled change that would have an unexpected ending.Beginning with the Audubons’ return to America in 1839, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot follows the many twists and turns of the area’s path from forest to city, ending in the twenty-first century with the Audubon name re-purposed in today’s historic district, a multiethnic, multi-racial urban neighborhood far removed from the homogeneous, Eurocentric Audubon Park suburb.

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Wie konnte aus einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt die Stadt werden, die niemals schläft? »Das andere New York« ist einer vernachlässigten Epoche gewidmet: der Antebellum-Ära. Angelika Möller bespricht die Entwicklung New Yorks von der Kleinstadt zur Großstadt in der Zeit zwischen Amerikanischer Revolution und Bürgerkrieg aus sozial- und kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Unter Einbeziehung von zeitgenössischen Diskursen und kulturellen Praktiken zeigt sie, wie Orte im Stadtraum geplant, gebaut, bewohnt, angeeignet, gefeiert, geplündert, transformiert und ausrangiert wurden. Die Studie lenkt den Blick auf ungewöhnliche Freiräume und Vergnügungen unter freiem Himmel und verhandelt, welche Rolle diese in der Metropolwerdung New Yorks spielten. »Der sehr lesenswerten und in Teilen [...] spannend zu lesenden Studie ist zu wünschen, dass sie ins Englische übersetzt wird und damit eine größere Leserschaft erhält.« Barbara Happe, Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde (2017) »Möllers ausführliche Analyse der Entstehungs- und Veränderungsprozesse öffentlicher Räume zeigt präzise die Stärken des erweiterten terrain vague-Konzeptes bei der Nutzung in historischen Arbeiten. Eine der Stärken der Studie von Angelika Möller ist die detaillierte Beschreibung und Analyse dieser Prozesse von Verdrängung und Erfindung, die die Verdrängenden sowie die Verdrängten in den Blick nimmt.« Jens Gründler, Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 1023 (2016) Besprochen in: Fraunhofer IRB, 4 (2015) Planerin, 3 (2015) Stadt + Grün, 7 (2015), Kristina Vagt http://moleskinblues.net, 23.01.2016, Jörg Auberg Friedhofskultur, 3 (2016) Neue Lanschaft, 12 (2015)

New York; Geschichte; Antebellum; Stadtforschung; Kulturgeschichte; Amerika; Stadt; Amerikanische Geschichte; Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts; Urban Studies; Geschichtswissenschaft; History; Cultural History; America; City; American History; History of the 19th Century; --- America. --- American History. --- Antebellum. --- City. --- Cultural History. --- History of the 19th Century. --- History. --- Urban Studies.

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Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers including Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise Erdrich, and Herman Melville and A. S. Byatt, the book demonstrates that some of our most vaunted strategies to address ecological crisis in fact perpetuate environmental degradation.Yet Michelle C. Neely also reveals that the nineteenth century offers useful and generative environmentalisms, if only we know where and how to find them. Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson experimented with models of joyful, anti-consumerist frugality. Hannah Crafts and Harriet Wilson devised forms of radical pet-keeping that model more just ways of living with others. Ultimately, the book explores forms of utopianism that might more reliably guide mainstream environmental culture toward transformative forms of ecological and social justice. Through new readings of familiar texts, Against Sustainability demonstrates how nineteenth-century U.S. literature can help us rethink our environmental paradigms in order to imagine more just and environmentally sound futures.

American literature --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Nature --- History and criticism. --- Effect of human beings on --- Antebellum Literature. --- Anthropocene. --- Dickinson. --- Environmentalism. --- Melville. --- Nineteenth Century. --- Preservation. --- Sustainability. --- Thoreau. --- Whitman.

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In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840's to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Despite the common belief that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale stocks, the authors argue that the industry's collapse was related to changes in technology and market conditions. Providing a wealth of historical information, In Pursuit of Leviathan is a classic industry study that will provide intriguing reading for anyone interested in the history of whaling.

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