Book Review American Practice of Surgery . A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery by representative surgeons of the United States of America and Canada. Editors: Joseph D. Bryant, M.D., and Albert H. Buck, M.D., of New York City. Vol. II. New York: William Wood & Co. 1907.

In the fifteenth century, a rich coastal area along the western rim of the Atlantic Basin, now known as New York City, was on the brink of transformation. It was a quiet place where autonomous communities of egalitarian peoples, today known as the Munsee, lived. Three centuries later, that place had become the first capital of a new, slave-owning, settler nation, the United States of America, and that nation’s premier port. In between, it was first an extractive and then a settler colony of two major European powers, the Netherlands and England, and a battleground in the American Revolution. This chapter uses the results of archaeological excavations there to illuminate that dramatic transformation.

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The Russian Revolution in New York, 1917–19

Journal of Contemporary History ◽

10.1177/0022009417724213 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 959-979 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tony Michels

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Political Parties ◽

United States Of America ◽

York City ◽

The United States ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

Successful Outcome ◽

Communist Movement

The events of 1917 exerted strong influences on immigrant Jews in the United States of America, who, over the previous three decades, had cultivated ties with various Russian-Jewish and Russian political parties. With the lives of friends, relatives, and comrades hanging in the balance, immigrant Jews felt a deep investment in a successful outcome of the Russian Revolution. This article seeks to uncover the broad climate of opinion – the mix of perceptions, emotions, and ideas – toward Bolshevism as it coalesced among immigrant Jews in New York City and found extreme political manifestation in the Communist movement.

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Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation ◽

10.1525/rac.1997.7.2.03a00020 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 195-223

Author(s):

Lillian Taiz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Popular Culture ◽

York City ◽

The United States ◽

Salvation Army ◽

Public Meeting ◽

The Many ◽

Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

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Values of Voluntary Simplicity: Lifestyle and Motivation

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1984.55.1.231 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 231-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Avraham Shama ◽

Joseph Wisenblit

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

The United States ◽

Voluntary Simplicity ◽

Ecological Responsibility ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

And Behavior

This paper describes the relation between values and behavior of a new life style, that of voluntary simplicity which is characterized by low consumption, self-sufficiency, and ecological responsibility. Also, specific hypotheses regarding the motivation for voluntary simplicity and adoption in two areas of the United States were tested. Analysis shows (a) values of voluntary simplicity and behaviors are consistent, (b) the motivation for voluntary simplicity includes personal preference and economic hardship, and (c) adoption of voluntary simplicity is different in the Denver and New York City metropolitan areas.

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