Title Inside Greenwich Village : a New York City neighborhood, 1898-1918 / Gerald W. McFarland

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: The Latter Days of the Sixth Village -- Ch. 1. Neighbors and Strangers. The Heart of Little Africa. An Immigrant Church. The Green in Greenwich -- Ch. 2. For Their Mutual Benefit. West Side Branch. Greenwich House -- Ch. 3. The Patrician Response. The North Villagers. Ascension Forum. The Washington Square Association -- Ch. 4. Allies. The A Clubbers. The Greenwich House Circle. Cross-Class Alliances, 1907-1911 -- Ch. 5. Value Conflicts. The Improper Villagers. Village Artists at Work and Play -- Ch. 6. Becoming Bohemia. The Seventh Villagers. The Neighborhood, 1913-1918 Summary A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century In the popular imagination, New York City's Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-garde artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who challenged the reigning orthodoxies of their time. Yet a century ago the Village was a much different kind of place: a mixed-class, multiethnic neighborhood teeming with the energy and social tensions of a rapidly changing America, Gerald W. McFarland reconstructs this world with vivid descriptions of the major groups that resided within its boundaries - the Italian immigrants and African Americans to the south, the Irish Americans to the west, the well-to-do Protestants to the north, and the New York University students, middle-class professionals, and artists and writers who lived in apartment buildings and boarding houses on or near Washington Square. McFarland examines how these Villagers, so divided along class and ethnic lines, interacted with one another.; He shows how clashing expectations about what constituted proper behavior in the neighborhood's public spaces - especially streets, parks, and saloons - often led to intergroup conflict, political rivalries, and campaigns by the more privileged Villagers to impose middle-class mores on their working-class neighbors. Occasionally, however, a crisis or common problem led residents to overlook their differences and cooperate across class and ethnic lines. Throughout the book, McFarland connects the evolution of Village life to the profound transformations taking place in American society at large during the same years Analysis "Multi-User" Notes OldControl:muse9781613761298 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Social History. Ethnic relations Minorities Social classes Social conditions Ethnische Beziehungen Soziale Situation Sociale klassen. Etnische groepen. Minorités -- États-Unis -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20e siècle. Classes sociales -- États-Unis -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20e siècle. SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091425 Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Greenwich Village New York- Greenwich Village New York (N.Y.) -- Quartier de Greenwich Village. New York (N.Y.) -- 1898-1951. New York (N.Y.) -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle. New York (N.Y.) -- Relations interethniques. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 00054393 ISBN 9781613761298 1613761295 9786611108816 6611108815

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