The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise - Softcover

Dolgon, Corey

 
9780814719978: The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise
Softcover
ISBN 10: 081471997X ISBN 13: 9780814719978
Verlag: New York University Press, 2006

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Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology
A portrait of the contentious, controversial history of the Manhattan elite's favorite fabled summer playground
In this absorbing account of New York's famous vacation playground, Corey Dolgon goes beyond the celebrity tales and polo games to tell us the story of this complex and contentious land. From the displacement of Native Americans by the Puritans to the first wave of Manhattan elites who built the Summer Colony, to the current infusion of telecommuting Manhattanites who now want to live there year-round, the story of the Hamptons is a vicious cycle of supposed paradise lost.
Drawing on this fabled land's history, The End of the Hamptons provides a fascinating portrait of current controversies: the Native Americans fighting over land claims and threatening to build a casino, the environmental activists clashing with the McMansion builders, and the Latino day laborers and working-class natives trying to eke out a living in an ever-increasingly expensive town.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Corey Dolgon is associate professor of sociology at Worcester State College and the editor of Humanity and Society, the Journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology.

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Verlag
New York University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
081471997X
ISBN 13 
9780814719978
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
277
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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