The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York - Gilfoyle, Timothy
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Within the larger story of urban New York and how and why crime changed in late nineteenth-century America, Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo focuses on the story of George Appo, pickpocket and con-man.

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Within the larger story of urban New York and how and why crime changed in late nineteenth-century America, Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo focuses on the story of George Appo, pickpocket and con-man.
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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.