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The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

By Thomas Gunn, David Faflik (Editor), David Faflik (Introduction)
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By Thomas Gunn, David Faflik (Editor), David Faflik (Introduction)
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The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-d...

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HistorySocial SciencesUnited States HistoryRegional Studies19th Century United States History - General & MiscellaneousUnited States Studies19th Century American History - Social AspectsRegional Studies - Northeast & Middle Atlantic U.S.