A Geography of Cultures: Or, Why New York’s Lower East Side Is an Important Case Study
The essay focuses on New York’s immigrant quarter par excellence, the Lower East Side, at the south-east end of Manhattan. During the 19th century, but especially in the crucial turn-of-the-century decades, the quarter—an immigrant ghetto of appalling living and working conditions as well as a hotbe...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2010-03-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1121 |