| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class, and Citizenship in New York, 1890–1929. Ed. by William Boelhower and Anna Scacchi. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2004. 392 pp. Paper, €40.00, ISBN 90-5383-888-0.)
This collection of essays by European humanities scholars employs multidisciplinary techniques and outlooks to study New York City during a period of ethnic and racial transition. Focusing on the 1890–1929 period, the authors use, for example, cultural, gender, and film studies, photography, art history, and literary critique to analyze the city. This book is certainly not the usual historical study of an urban area, but historians will find it extremely useful in broadening their own methodology with regard to research on specific periods and places.	1
New York City in any era is a fascinating conglomeration of people and places. Among the more interesting neighborhoods in the city's history are Harlem, Little Italy, and the Lower East Side, and among its raconteurs and personalities have lived Jacob Riis, Louis Hine, Henry and William James, Upton Sinclair, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Frank Capra. Each of these places and figures are included in the essays, which tell New York's story in multifarious ways.	. . .

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