Radical Walking Tours of New York City
Title | Radical Walking Tours of New York City PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Kayton |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1609800427 |
Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they’ve left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other heroes. Through Kayton’s lens, the history of all hitherto existing neighborhoods is the history of class struggles, civil rights battles, and labor movements; these twelve tours provide as many exciting, provocative, and educational afternoons. You can visit, for instance, Emma Goldman’s long-time home in the East Village, Langston Hughes’s house in Harlem, the site of Mabel Dodge’s salon o the apartment in which John Reed worked on Ten Days That Shook the World, and the site of Margaret Sanger’s first birth control clinic. From Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, Bruce Kayton’s tours provide a new perspective on the history of both New York City and American radicalism.
Radical Walking Tours of New York City, Third Edition
Title | Radical Walking Tours of New York City, Third Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Kayton |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-12-13 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1609806905 |
Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power--extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barrons whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance. But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world's imagination. It is a city of proletarian uprising, of abolitionist rebellion, of civil rights demonstrations, and radical futures. This is Bruce Kayton's New York, the town of Emma Goldman and Langston Hughes, of Margaret Sanger and John Reed, of demonstrations and shootouts, of community gardens and marches. Now in an expanded third edition with a new Upper West Side tour featuring the Berrigans, Maxim Gorky, Lucien Carr and others, and updated sites reflecting recent anti-war and police-brutality protests, Occupy Wall Street and Zuccotti Park, and more, these thirteen walking tours, taking us from Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, offer a vital new perspective on the history of New York City and its place in the traditions of American radicalism.
Radical Walking Tours of New York City
Title | Radical Walking Tours of New York City PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Kayton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
RADICAL WALKING TOURS OF NEW YORK CITY Few people know that Trotsky lived in New York just before the Russian Revolution. He lived in the Bronx and worked as a journalist in the East Village. This and many other intriguing facts are revealed in this new walking guide which eschews the usual guidebook fare and takes the reader to the battle sites of the class struggle. Illustrated with 30 b & w photographs.
Walking New York
Title | Walking New York PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Cancila |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | 1426208731 |
Presents itineraries for fifteen walking tours in Manhattan, with descriptions of the attractions located along each route; information about the history, architecture, and culture of the city; maps; and photographs.
The New York Red Pages
Title | The New York Red Pages PDF eBook |
Author | Toby Glickman |
Publisher | Praeger Pub Text |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1984-07 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780275917876 |
Fifteen walking tours of Manhattan below 14th street that visit scores of locations, parks, streets, and buildings that have played a part in progressive and radical movement history from the American Revolution through the anti-Vietnam war movement.
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
Title | A People's Guide to Los Angeles PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Pulido |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2012-04-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520953347 |
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley—this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.
Nooks and Crannies
Title | Nooks and Crannies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |