Timothy J Gilfoyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 616964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy J Gilfoyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilfoyle |
| SIGNATURE | GILFOYLE T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Revising the Newsboy
Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld by Dominique Kalifa
Dominique Kalifa traces the emergence of the urban underworld in the Western world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vice, Crime, and Poverty represents a remarkable synthesis of a considerable primary and secondary literature on these subjects spanning numerous national histories, incorporating the work of Eric J. Hobsbawm, Michel Foucault, Bronislaw Geremek, Richard J. Evans, Alain Corbin, Louis Chevalier, Tyler Anbinder, and other…
Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux
The death of American historian Arnold Hirsch, in 2018, generated multiple reexaminations of his profoundly influential “second ghetto thesis.” Hirsch’s landmark Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940 - 1960 (1983) is considered among the most important books on twentieth-century American history published in the past half century. In 2003, contributors to a special issue of the Journal of Urban History reflected on the twent…
Obituary
Children as Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Thieves in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael Katz on Place and Space in Urban History
Revisting Gangs in the Post–World War II North American City: A Forum
City gangs have long been a subject of historical debate.More than a century ago, the muckraking journalist Jacob Riis presented one of the earliest systematic examinations of gang life in American cities. "By day they loaf in the corner-groggeries on their beat, at night they plunder the stores along the avenues, or lie in wait at the river for unsteady feet straying their way," wrote Riis (1890) in his classic How the Other Half Lives.Riis's ex…
The Lost Museum
Journal Article The Lost Museum Get access The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews appear both in the printed journal and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand Web sites for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the …
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 by Kali N. Gross
Urban History: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty
Archaeologists in the Brothel: “Sin City,” Historical Archaeology and Prostitution
Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900
For over half a century, the street child was an inescapable fixture of the nineteenth-century industrial city. Lacking formal education, adult supervision, and sometimes even a home, such youths were derided as "rats," "gamins," "Arabs," "urchins" and "gutter-snipes." In a country which identified geographic mobility and physical movement as freedom, the street kid represented the logical nightmare---the replacement of community, familial and ev…
America's Greatest Criminal Barracks”: The Tombs and the Experience of Criminal Justice in New York City, 1838-1897
New York City's Halls of Justice, better known as “the Tombs,” was the physical representation of nineteenth-century criminal justice. Considered by many to be the most famous prison on the continent, the Tombs contained the entire corpus of criminal law: judges, juries, magistrates, attorneys, courtrooms, and cells of incarceration. The daily operation, living conditions, and organization of the Tombs departed sharply from nineteenth-century ide…
Scorsese's Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters
Gangs in the Post-World War II North American City: A Forum
White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History
Few events better illustrate the multiple paradigms in recent urban history than the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. For decades, the considerable literature on the Fair emphasized the and issues of physical planning, moral order, and neoclassical architecture. But since 1980, the Exposition has exemplified the growing diversity of urban historiography. 1 For Christine Boyer, the Fair was part of new discourse reflecting the emer…
The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D. C., 1861-1902
The invention of pornography: Obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800
Prostitutes in the Archives: Problems and Possibilities in Documenting the History of Sexuality
In the past decade, the study of sexuality has proven to be one of the most dynamic academic enterprises. Among the most popular topics has been the history of prostitution. Archivists have been invaluable but largely unsung allies in the explosive growth of a new revisionist literature. Through the preservation of long-ignored and oftendiscarded records and manuscripts, archivists provided the means enabling historians to answer many new questio…
The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America
A Walk on the Dark Side
In City of Eros, Timothy Gilfoyle skillfully represents mid-nineteenth-century New York City as the carnal show case of the Western world. Exploring shifting boundaries of sexual behavior, he details the changing geography and structure of prostitution and the relationship between political power and the underworld economy of commercial sex. Gilfoyle extends his description to cover the subculture of sporting life as an integral aspect of commerc…
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
Journal Article City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920. By Timothy J. Gilfoyle. (New York: Norton, 1992. 462 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-393-02800-3.) Get access Elliott J. Gorn Elliott J. Gorn Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 650–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079905 P…
The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
The Urban Geography of Commercial Sex: Prostitution in New York City, 1790-1860
White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History
Few events better illustrate the multiple paradigms in recent urban history than the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. For decades, the considerable literature on the Fair emphasized the and issues of physical planning, moral order, and neoclassical architecture. But since 1980, the Exposition has exemplified the growing diversity of urban historiography. 1 For Christine Boyer, the Fair was part of new discourse reflecting the emer…
The Moral Origins of Political Surveillance: The Preventive Society in New York City, 1867-1918
Charles Parkhurst were the most publicized in American history. Coinstockery, coined by a captious George Bernard Shaw, quickly became synonymous with the Victorian predilection for sexual suppression and regulation. ' Historians, however, have devoted scant attention to a simultaneous urban movement in which Comstock and Parkhurst played critical roles. Reacting to pervasive municipal corruption and increasing visibility of gambling dens, brothe…
Archaeologists in the Brothel: “Sin City,” Historical Archaeology and Prostitution
Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900
For over half a century, the street child was an inescapable fixture of the nineteenth-century industrial city. Lacking formal education, adult supervision, and sometimes even a home, such youths were derided as "rats," "gamins," "Arabs," "urchins" and "gutter-snipes." In a country which identified geographic mobility and physical movement as freedom, the street kid represented the logical nightmare---the replacement of community, familial and ev…
The Moral Origins of Political Surveillance: The Preventive Society in New York City, 1867-1918
Charles Parkhurst were the most publicized in American history. Coinstockery, coined by a captious George Bernard Shaw, quickly became synonymous with the Victorian predilection for sexual suppression and regulation. ' Historians, however, have devoted scant attention to a simultaneous urban movement in which Comstock and Parkhurst played critical roles. Reacting to pervasive municipal corruption and increasing visibility of gambling dens, brothe…
The Urban Geography of Commercial Sex: Prostitution in New York City, 1790-1860
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940
The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture
A Walk on the Dark Side
In City of Eros, Timothy Gilfoyle skillfully represents mid-nineteenth-century New York City as the carnal show case of the Western world. Exploring shifting boundaries of sexual behavior, he details the changing geography and structure of prostitution and the relationship between political power and the underworld economy of commercial sex. Gilfoyle extends his description to cover the subculture of sporting life as an integral aspect of commerc…
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
Journal Article City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920. By Timothy J. Gilfoyle. (New York: Norton, 1992. 462 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-393-02800-3.) Get access Elliott J. Gorn Elliott J. Gorn Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 650–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079905 P…
Prostitutes in the Archives: Problems and Possibilities in Documenting the History of Sexuality
In the past decade, the study of sexuality has proven to be one of the most dynamic academic enterprises. Among the most popular topics has been the history of prostitution. Archivists have been invaluable but largely unsung allies in the explosive growth of a new revisionist literature. Through the preservation of long-ignored and oftendiscarded records and manuscripts, archivists provided the means enabling historians to answer many new questio…
The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America
The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D. C., 1861-1902
The invention of pornography: Obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800
White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History
Few events better illustrate the multiple paradigms in recent urban history than the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. For decades, the considerable literature on the Fair emphasized the and issues of physical planning, moral order, and neoclassical architecture. But since 1980, the Exposition has exemplified the growing diversity of urban historiography. 1 For Christine Boyer, the Fair was part of new discourse reflecting the emer…
Gangs in the Post-World War II North American City: A Forum
America's Greatest Criminal Barracks”: The Tombs and the Experience of Criminal Justice in New York City, 1838-1897
New York City's Halls of Justice, better known as “the Tombs,” was the physical representation of nineteenth-century criminal justice. Considered by many to be the most famous prison on the continent, the Tombs contained the entire corpus of criminal law: judges, juries, magistrates, attorneys, courtrooms, and cells of incarceration. The daily operation, living conditions, and organization of the Tombs departed sharply from nineteenth-century ide…
Scorsese's Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters
Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900
For over half a century, the street child was an inescapable fixture of the nineteenth-century industrial city. Lacking formal education, adult supervision, and sometimes even a home, such youths were derided as "rats," "gamins," "Arabs," "urchins" and "gutter-snipes." In a country which identified geographic mobility and physical movement as freedom, the street kid represented the logical nightmare---the replacement of community, familial and ev…
Archaeologists in the Brothel: “Sin City,” Historical Archaeology and Prostitution
Urban History: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 by Kali N. Gross
The Lost Museum
Journal Article The Lost Museum Get access The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews appear both in the printed journal and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand Web sites for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the …
Revisting Gangs in the Post–World War II North American City: A Forum
City gangs have long been a subject of historical debate.More than a century ago, the muckraking journalist Jacob Riis presented one of the earliest systematic examinations of gang life in American cities. "By day they loaf in the corner-groggeries on their beat, at night they plunder the stores along the avenues, or lie in wait at the river for unsteady feet straying their way," wrote Riis (1890) in his classic How the Other Half Lives.Riis's ex…
Children as Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Thieves in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael Katz on Place and Space in Urban History
Obituary
Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld by Dominique Kalifa
Dominique Kalifa traces the emergence of the urban underworld in the Western world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vice, Crime, and Poverty represents a remarkable synthesis of a considerable primary and secondary literature on these subjects spanning numerous national histories, incorporating the work of Eric J. Hobsbawm, Michel Foucault, Bronislaw Geremek, Richard J. Evans, Alain Corbin, Louis Chevalier, Tyler Anbinder, and other…
Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux
The death of American historian Arnold Hirsch, in 2018, generated multiple reexaminations of his profoundly influential “second ghetto thesis.” Hirsch’s landmark Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940 - 1960 (1983) is considered among the most important books on twentieth-century American history published in the past half century. In 2003, contributors to a special issue of the Journal of Urban History reflected on the twent…
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