The physiology of New York boarding-houses /

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Author / Creator:	Gunn, Thomas Butler.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxiii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Lodging-houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century. Boardinghouses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century. Boardinghouses. Lodging-houses. Manners and customs. New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. New York (State) -- New York. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11188131

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Other authors / contributors:	Faflik, David, 1972-
ISBN:	9780813546216 0813546214 1281958786 9781281958785 9786611958787 6611958789 9780813544397 0813544394 9780813544403 0813544408
Notes:	Originally published: New York : Mason Brothers, 1857. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200). English. Print version record.
Summary:	The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding.
Other form:	Print version: Gunn, Thomas Butler. Physiology of New York boarding-houses. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813544397 0813544394
Standard no.:	9786611958787

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