The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo
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Timothy Gilfoyle
Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Ph.D. Columbia University) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Gilfoyles research and teaching focuses on American urban and social history. His books include A Pickpockets Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York; Millennium Park:Creating a Chicago Landmark; and City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. He is also the co-author with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz The Flash Press: Sporting Mens Weeklies in the 1840s. Gilfoyle has been a Minow Family Foundation Fellow, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of American History, and an N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE. Introduction: Cultures of Crime
Who was George Appo?
The Rise of the Pickpocket
Drugs and Crime
Green Goods
Policing the Industrial City
Politics and Crime
The Penitentiary
Good Fellows
Progressive Criminology
The Criminal Memoir
Appo Transformed
Appo’s Memory
Conclusion
PART TWO. The Document: The Autobiography of George Appo
Childhood
The Penitentiary
Jack Collins, Tom Lee, and Fred Crage
Sing Sing Again
Philadelphia
Thomas Wilson
Green Goods
Poughkeepsie
Clinton Again
Stealing Guys
The Lexow Committee
In the Tenderloin
Violence
Matteawan
Reform
Good Fellows
Reflections
PART THREE. Related Documents
George Appo in His Words and Others
1. Louis Beck, New York’s Chinatown (1898)
2. George Appo, Letter to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, May 9, 1899
3. Dr. Henry E. Allison, Report on George Appo, 1899
4. Lewis Lawes, excerpt from Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (1932)
5. Bronx Home News, Obituary on George Appo, June 15, 1930
Subcultures of Crime
6. George W. Matsell, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon (1859)
7. New York State Assembly, Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the Assembly of 1875 to Investigate the Causes of the Increase of Crime in the City of New York (1876)
8. New York State Senate, Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York (1895)
9. Thomas Byrnes, "Methods of Professional Criminals of America," in Professional Criminals of America (1886)
10. Lincoln Steffens, "The Underworld" in The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)
11. William T. Stead, "King McNally and His Police," in Satan’s Invisible World Displayed, or, Despairing Democracy: A Study of Greater New York (1898)
The Criminal in Popular Culture
12. Review of In the Tenderloin in The Illustrated American (1895)
Appendixes
A George Appo Chronology (1856-1930)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Product Updates
Authors
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Timothy Gilfoyle
Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Ph.D. Columbia University) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Gilfoyles research and teaching focuses on American urban and social history. His books include A Pickpockets Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York; Millennium Park:Creating a Chicago Landmark; and City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. He is also the co-author with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz The Flash Press: Sporting Mens Weeklies in the 1840s. Gilfoyle has been a Minow Family Foundation Fellow, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of American History, and an N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE. Introduction: Cultures of Crime
Who was George Appo?
The Rise of the Pickpocket
Drugs and Crime
Green Goods
Policing the Industrial City
Politics and Crime
The Penitentiary
Good Fellows
Progressive Criminology
The Criminal Memoir
Appo Transformed
Appo’s Memory
Conclusion
PART TWO. The Document: The Autobiography of George Appo
Childhood
The Penitentiary
Jack Collins, Tom Lee, and Fred Crage
Sing Sing Again
Philadelphia
Thomas Wilson
Green Goods
Poughkeepsie
Clinton Again
Stealing Guys
The Lexow Committee
In the Tenderloin
Violence
Matteawan
Reform
Good Fellows
Reflections
PART THREE. Related Documents
George Appo in His Words and Others
1. Louis Beck, New York’s Chinatown (1898)
2. George Appo, Letter to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, May 9, 1899
3. Dr. Henry E. Allison, Report on George Appo, 1899
4. Lewis Lawes, excerpt from Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (1932)
5. Bronx Home News, Obituary on George Appo, June 15, 1930
Subcultures of Crime
6. George W. Matsell, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon (1859)
7. New York State Assembly, Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the Assembly of 1875 to Investigate the Causes of the Increase of Crime in the City of New York (1876)
8. New York State Senate, Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York (1895)
9. Thomas Byrnes, "Methods of Professional Criminals of America," in Professional Criminals of America (1886)
10. Lincoln Steffens, "The Underworld" in The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)
11. William T. Stead, "King McNally and His Police," in Satan’s Invisible World Displayed, or, Despairing Democracy: A Study of Greater New York (1898)
The Criminal in Popular Culture
12. Review of In the Tenderloin in The Illustrated American (1895)
Appendixes
A George Appo Chronology (1856-1930)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Product Updates
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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo
Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to life the opium dens, organized criminals, and prisons that comprised the rapidly changing criminal underworld of late nineteenth-century America. The books introduction and supporting documents, which include investigative reports and descriptions of Appo and his world, connect Appos memoir to the larger story of urban New York and how and why crime changed during this period. It also explores factors of race and class that led some to a life of crime, the experience of criminal justice and incarceration, and the masculine codes of honor that marked the emergence of the nations criminal subculture. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.
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