| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gerald W. McFarland. Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 272. $29.95.

Greenwich Village has a special place in New York City history, and in American cultural history as well. In the Progressive era, the "Village" became known for its avant-garde culture, its bohemian life styles, and its radical politics. The Village's cultural radicals have been written about before, but Gerald W. McFarland's book pushes beyond these popular images. This book explores the history of the larger Village neighborhood: a small geographical area of lower Manhattan with considerable ethnic and class diversity. By 1900, the Village was home to Irish, Italians, African Americans, patrician New Yorkers, and a small but growing number of reformers, activists, artists, and writers. The central question of the book involves "investigating how a culturally diverse neighborhood functioned early in the twentieth century" (p. 6). . . .

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