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From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, this book charts the development of slumming.

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"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written.... Vivid and astonishingly detailed." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York "This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity." - American Historical Review "An enthralling history.... Assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material." - New Yorker"

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    A Paperback / softback by Chad Heap

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 30/10/2010
      ISBN13: 9780226322445, 978-0226322445
      ISBN10: 0226322440
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, this book charts the development of slumming.

      Trade Review
      "Exhaustively researched and beautifully written.... Vivid and astonishingly detailed." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York "This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity." - American Historical Review "An enthralling history.... Assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material." - New Yorker"

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