On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its Tammany Hall politicians were"a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a self-righteous "blatherskite," Parkhurst resolve...

A 1900s New York portrait that's "an evocative and valuable reminder . . . of one unrelenting individual's ability to make a difference" ( New York Times ).Before publishing How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's population—Jacob Riis was an itinerant laborer until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. Expe...

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultura...

In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.

Na trilha das mudanças provocadas por este cenário tectônico, o Direito, disciplina do saber humano que se debruça sobre um amplo leque de temas que vão do sentido último da Justiça e de sua distribuição à funcionalização e operacionalização do Direito positivo, passando, por óbvio, pelos fins do Estado, não transitou incólume. Tribunais, no Brasil e no mundo passaram a cumprir remotamente o mister que lhes atribuíram os textos constitucionais nacionais e toda uma ordem de novas disciplina...