| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918. By Gerald W. McFarland. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. xiv, 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55849-299-2.)

Writing in the style of local history, Gerald W. McFarland examines Greenwich Village as a microcosm of Progressive Era America. Using census data, diaries, and journals, as well as the newspapers and manuscript and sociological studies of the era, he provides a wealth of detail on the people, places, institutions, and events of the village. 1

Building on Floyd Dell's seven phases of Greenwich Village (1926), McFarland focuses on the second half of Dell's "sixth village" (1890–1918), a period, he argues, that has been neglected. Although Dell classified the sixth village (1860–1920) as a single entity, McFarland follows subsequent scholars who divided it into two separate experiences: the "American Ward," 1860–1890, and the "Real Village," 1890–1920. 2

After a brief survey of the American Ward, the narrative focuses on the "Real Village" and its inhabitants. By 1890 the area had attracted reformers whose institutions, such as Greenwich House, the Charity Organization Society, and the New York Women's Trade Union League, mirrored those of other areas in the city. It is those reformers and institutions that form the basis of the study. The study closes with the emergence of the Bohemian Village, with which Americans are most familiar. . . .

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