Harry M. Ward

Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. Some two hundred saloons served the city's poor and from 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780786498536
• ISBN-10: 0786498536
• Artikelnr.: 42025163

Autorenporträt

The late Harry M. Ward was William Binford Vest Professor of History Emeritus at University of Richmond. He was the author of 21 books, including college-level textbooks on Colonial America and the American Revolution, military biographies and studies of social aspects of the Revolution.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface 1.
The Setting 2.
Police Court 3.
The Great Dispenser 4.
Boy Gangs 5.
Rockers 6.
Girls Astray 7.
Prostitutes 8.
Newsies 9.
Vagrants 10.
Tramps 11.
Castaways 12.
Runaways 13.
Kidnapped 14.
Players 15.
Gamblers 16.
Swimmers 17.
Suspicious Characters 18.
Joy Riders 19.
Dopers and Boozers 20.
Streetfighters 21.
Rowdies 22.
Rioters 23.
Burglars and Footpads 24.
Snatch Thieves 25.
Killers 26.
Jailbirds 27.
Corporal Punishment 28.
"Outside Poor" 29.
Reformatory 30.
Juvenile Protective Movement Glossary Chapter Notes Bibliography Index