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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo by Timothy Gilfoyle - First Edition, 2013 from Macmillan Student Store
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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo

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Through the detailed story of George Appo, pickpocket and con-man, Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo presents nineteenth-century urban New York and how and why crime was changing. Exploring factors of race and class that led some to a life of crime, the experience of criminal justice and incarceration, and the masculine codes of honor that marked the emergence of the nation's criminal subculture, the text features supporting documents such as investigative reports.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

PART ONE. Introduction: Cultures of Crime

     Who was George Appo?

     The Rise of the Pickpocket

     Drugs and Crime

     Green Goods

     Policing the Industrial City

     Politics and Crime

     The Penitentiary

     Good Fellows

     Progressive Criminology

     The Criminal Memoir

     Appo Transformed

     Appo’s Memory

     Conclusion

PART TWO. The Document: The Autobiography of George Appo

Childhood

The Penitentiary

Jack Collins, Tom Lee, and Fred Crage

Sing Sing Again

Philadelphia

Thomas Wilson

Green Goods

Poughkeepsie

Clinton Again

Stealing Guys

The Lexow Committee

In the Tenderloin

Violence

Matteawan

Reform

Good Fellows

Reflections

PART THREE. Related Documents

George Appo in His Words and Others

1. Louis Beck, New York’s Chinatown (1898)

2. George Appo, Letter to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, May 9, 1899

3. Dr. Henry E. Allison, Report on George Appo, 1899

4. Lewis Lawes, excerpt from Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (1932)

5. Bronx Home News, Obituary on George Appo, June 15, 1930

Subcultures of Crime

6. George W. Matsell, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon (1859)

7. New York State Assembly, Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the Assembly of 1875 to Investigate the Causes of the Increase of Crime in the City of New York (1876)

8. New York State Senate, Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York (1895)

9. Thomas Byrnes, "Methods of Professional Criminals of America," in Professional Criminals of America (1886)

10. Lincoln Steffens, "The Underworld" in The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)

11. William T. Stead, "King McNally and His Police," in Satan’s Invisible World Displayed, or, Despairing Democracy: A Study of Greater New York (1898)

The Criminal in Popular Culture

12. Review of In the Tenderloin in The Illustrated American (1895)

Appendixes

     A George Appo Chronology (1856-1930)

     Questions for Consideration

     Selected Bibliography

Index

Authors

Timothy Gilfoyle

Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Ph.D. Columbia University) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Gilfoyle's research and teaching focuses on American urban and social history. His books include A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York; Millennium Park:Creating a Chicago Landmark; and City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. He is also the co-author with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz The Flash Press: Sporting Men's Weeklies in the 1840s. Gilfoyle has been a Minow Family Foundation Fellow, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, and an N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.


Through the detailed story of George Appo, pickpocket and con-man, Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo presents nineteenth-century urban New York and how and why crime was changing. Exploring factors of race and class that led some to a life of crime, the experience of criminal justice and incarceration, and the masculine codes of honor that marked the emergence of the nation's criminal subculture, the text features supporting documents such as investigative reports.

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Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

PART ONE. Introduction: Cultures of Crime

     Who was George Appo?

     The Rise of the Pickpocket

     Drugs and Crime

     Green Goods

     Policing the Industrial City

     Politics and Crime

     The Penitentiary

     Good Fellows

     Progressive Criminology

     The Criminal Memoir

     Appo Transformed

     Appo’s Memory

     Conclusion

PART TWO. The Document: The Autobiography of George Appo

Childhood

The Penitentiary

Jack Collins, Tom Lee, and Fred Crage

Sing Sing Again

Philadelphia

Thomas Wilson

Green Goods

Poughkeepsie

Clinton Again

Stealing Guys

The Lexow Committee

In the Tenderloin

Violence

Matteawan

Reform

Good Fellows

Reflections

PART THREE. Related Documents

George Appo in His Words and Others

1. Louis Beck, New York’s Chinatown (1898)

2. George Appo, Letter to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, May 9, 1899

3. Dr. Henry E. Allison, Report on George Appo, 1899

4. Lewis Lawes, excerpt from Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (1932)

5. Bronx Home News, Obituary on George Appo, June 15, 1930

Subcultures of Crime

6. George W. Matsell, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon (1859)

7. New York State Assembly, Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the Assembly of 1875 to Investigate the Causes of the Increase of Crime in the City of New York (1876)

8. New York State Senate, Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York (1895)

9. Thomas Byrnes, "Methods of Professional Criminals of America," in Professional Criminals of America (1886)

10. Lincoln Steffens, "The Underworld" in The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)

11. William T. Stead, "King McNally and His Police," in Satan’s Invisible World Displayed, or, Despairing Democracy: A Study of Greater New York (1898)

The Criminal in Popular Culture

12. Review of In the Tenderloin in The Illustrated American (1895)

Appendixes

     A George Appo Chronology (1856-1930)

     Questions for Consideration

     Selected Bibliography

Index

Timothy Gilfoyle

Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Ph.D. Columbia University) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Gilfoyle's research and teaching focuses on American urban and social history. His books include A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York; Millennium Park:Creating a Chicago Landmark; and City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. He is also the co-author with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz The Flash Press: Sporting Men's Weeklies in the 1840s. Gilfoyle has been a Minow Family Foundation Fellow, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, and an N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.


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