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The urban underworld in late nineteenth-century New York : the autobiography of George Appo with related documents / edited with an introduction by Timothy J. Gilfoyle.
- Title
- The urban underworld in late nineteenth-century New York : the autobiography of George Appo with related documents / edited with an introduction by Timothy J. Gilfoyle.
- Author
- Appo, George, 1856-
- Publication
- Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, c2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
- Description
- xvi, 188 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to life the opium dens, organized criminals, and prisons that comprised the rapidly changing criminal underworld of late nineteenth-century America. The book's introduction and supporting documents, which include investigative reports and descriptions of Appo and his world, connect Appo's memoir to the larger story of urban New York and how and why crime changed during this period. It also explores 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. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support."--Publisher's description
- Series Statement
- Bedford series in history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Bedford series in history and culture
- Alternative Title
- Autobiography of George Appo
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-176) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. ONE Introduction: Cultures of Crime -- Who Was George Appo? -- Rise of the Pickpocket -- Drugs and Crime -- Green Goods -- Policing the Industrial City -- Politics and Crime -- Penitentiary -- Good Fellows -- Progressive Criminology -- Criminal Memoir -- Appo Transformed -- Appo's Memory -- Appo and the Emergence of Organized Crime -- pt. TWO Autobiography of George Appo -- Childhood -- Penitentiary -- Jack Collins, Tom Lee, and Fred Crage -- Sing Sing Again -- Philadelphia -- Thomas Wilson -- Green Goods -- Poughkeepsie -- Clinton Again -- Stealing Guys -- Lexow Committee -- In the Tenderloin -- Violence -- Matteawan -- Reform -- Good Fellows -- Reflections -- pt. THREE Related Documents -- 1. George Appo in His Words and Those of Others -- 1. Louis J. Beck, New York's Chinatown, 1898 -- 2. George Appo, Letter to Governor Theodore Roosevelt, May 9, 1899 -- 3. Dr. Henry E. Allison, Report on George W. Appo, 1899 -- 4. Lewis E. Lawes, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, 1932 -- 5. Bronx Home News, Obituary of George Appo, June 15, 1930 -- 2. 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, Professional Criminals of America, 1886 -- 10. Lincoln Steffens, The Underworld, 1931 -- 11. William T. Stead, King McNally and His Police, 1898 -- 3. Criminal in Popular Culture -- 12. Illustrated American, Review of In the Tenderloin, 1895 -- APPENDIXES -- Quimbo and George Appo Chronology (1820s-1930) -- Questions for Consideration -- Selected Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9780312607623 (pbk.)
- 0312607628
- LCCN
- ^^2012945086
- OCLC
- 816029175
- SCSB-12872273
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library