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Anatomy of a Metropolis: The Changing Distribution of People and Jobs within the New York Metropolitan Region	Hoover, Edgar Malone Vernon, Raymond	E-DITION	1959	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Independent Reflector: Or, Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects, More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New-York	Livingston, William Klein, Milton M.	E-DITION	1963	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia	Lane, Roger	HARDCOVER	1979	$59.50	Currently unavailable
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720–1840	Nash, Gary B.	PAPERBACK	1991	$34.00
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City	Lerner, Michael A.	HARDCOVER	2007	$30.50
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City	Lerner, Michael A.	PAPERBACK	2008	$23.00
Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York	Dennis, Donna	HARDCOVER	2009	$36.50
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York	Riis, Jacob A. Warner, Sam Bass	PAPERBACK	2010	$15.50
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars	White, Shane Garton, Stephen Robertson, Stephen White, Graham	HARDCOVER	2010	$28.50
Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920	Huyssen, David	HARDCOVER	2014	$43.50
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America	Jones, Christopher F.	HARDCOVER	2014	$43.50
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City	McNeur, Catherine	HARDCOVER	2014	$31.00
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment	Fortner, Michael Javen	HARDCOVER	2015	$31.00
Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City	Woodsworth, Michael	HARDCOVER	2016	$35.00
From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City	Taft, Chloe E.	HARDCOVER	2016	$39.95
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America	Jones, Christopher F.	PAPERBACK	2016	$19.95
The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem	Goldstein, Brian D.	HARDCOVER	2017	$39.95
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City	McNeur, Catherine	PAPERBACK	2017	$19.95

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