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Published by The University of Chicago
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by Phoenix Books, 1963
Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Acceptable.
Published by Phoenix Books, 1963
Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1967
Seller: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. lviii, 388 pages. 21 cm. Red cloth with black letters on spine. Index. Abridged edition first published in 1963, reprint in 1967. Ex-library (ink stamped library name on title-page, pocket at back). Else tight and bright.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1927
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Photos available upon request. No Dustjacket. Does not include folding map, though not sure if this edition came with it. Cover boards have rubbing and smudging from shelf wear. Paste down label has staining and smudging. Center spine has a bumped crease from top to middle, spine label has wear, sunfading, and a chip at top. Bottom spine corner has a frayed chip. Textblock has toning. Front endpaper has previous owner's name written in pen and a personalized inscription from the author written in pen: "To my good friend, Louis Bourne, Sincerely, Frederic M. Thrasher". Paste down front endpaper has a sticker headshot of author. Markings in pencil throughout. Top of binding has light separation from textblock. Otherwise the book is in acceptable condition. Text pages are sharp. Binding is sturdy. Hinges are solid.
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. abridged edition. 388 pages. Cover worn. Ex-library.
Published by Phoenix University of Chicago Press
Seller: Violet's Bookstack, Ontario, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 388pp., index, black and white photos, one inch tear to the bottom spine end, some light age coloring to the covers, some chipping along cover edges, some creasing to the spine, previous owner's inscription inside the front cover,
Published by duell sloan and pearce, 1946
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback book in very good condition,dust jacket is good,missing large chip from top of first blank page,several other small chips,
Published by New Chicago School Press, 2000
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. AS NEW / NO DUST JACKET. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.
Published by NED EDICIONES, 2021
ISBN 10: 8416737916ISBN 13: 9788416737918
Seller: KALAMO LIBROS, S.L., La Puebla de Montalbán, TO, Spain
Book
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo.
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Published by Phoenix Books, Chicago, 1963
Seller: Emily's Books, Brainerd, MN, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. The covers have moderate wear and the spine is creased. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1960
Seller: Gene The Book Peddler, Winchester, NH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. book is tight with no markings, some tanning and soiling to top page edges, boards have some rubbing with bumping at corners.
Published by University of Chicago Press
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Good. 1927. Hardcover. Cloth. Octavo. xxi & 571 pp. LACKS MAP. Some shelf wear to boards, discoloration to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Front binding starting. Notations to rear of last page. Underlining and margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good.
Hardcover. xii, 308p., original brown cloth with paper labels slightly sloped, old marks on endpapers from non-archival tape (now removed), very good condition in an unclipped, lightly edgeworn dj with some fading to spine and small closed tears repaired on the verso with non-archival tape. *Rideout novel. "This novel is issued in a special edition, the sale of which is limited to physicians, surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, social workers, teachers and other persons having a professional interest in the psychology of adolescence;" printed notice on dj.
Published by University of Chicago Press],, [Chicago,, 1926
Seller: Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Map
A map of Chicago's gangs, from Thrasher's seminal study Lithograph map, printed in red and grey, with minor offsetting, one minor marginal tear and some splits at folds, housed within original paper envelope. Frederic Thrasher cemented his position as one of the leading members of the Chicago School of Sociology with his highly influential study of the city's gang culture. 'The Gang: a study of 1313 gangs in Chicago' was first published in 1927, and embodies the increasing academic interest in social and cultural failings also represented by contemporary studies such as Louis Wirth's 'The Ghetto' (1928), Nels Anderson's 'The Hobo' (1926), and Ruth Cavan's 'Suicide' (1927). The early twentieth century saw rapid urban expansion across the United States; between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression, Chicago's industrial output grew to account for 15% of the nation's total production, creating 328,000 new jobs. Naturally, this sudden growth had a number of higher order effects, such as the influx of immigrants, the breakdown of traditional roles and responsibilities, and new modes of association and living, many of which Thrasher examines in 'The Gang', and to several of which he attributes the emergence of over one thousand gangs. Thrasher was fundamentally a sociologist, rather than a psychologist, and his study of gangs and gang culture therefore takes a greater interest in the environment and circumstances that engender them, than in the personal attitudes or deficiencies of the individual gang members. For Thrasher, gangs and "gang-boys" were the product of liminal areas in which formal institutions such as the school, the church, the community and other official authorities had either failed to establish a presence, or failed to be sufficiently interesting, appealing or engaging to these young men. Gangs "flower where other institutions are lacking or fail to function efficiently. It is a typical symptom of the disorderly life of the frontier" (p20). This frontier imagery characterises Thrasher's discussion of Chicago's "gangland", which is depicted as an amalgam of disparate sub-communities transmuted into a set of hostile factions as their younger members formed gangs. These groups, sometimes indolent, generally destructive and often violent, were not only born out of geographical proximity, but eventually came to define the area over which they dominated; in Thrasher's description of Chicago, the expected topographical terms are replaced with titles such as "The North Side Jungles", "The West Side Wilderness", and "The South Side Badlands". Alongside Thrasher's excited and fast-paced prose, numerous illustrations provide the reader with a more atmospheric and immersive glimpse into the "ganglands" of Chicago in the 1920s. In fact, the work included a folding map of the city on which Thrasher had plotted the location of its 1313 gangs, distinguishing between those with and without a clubroom. The Chicago School of Sociology was interested in the mapping of geographic spaces and how it could reflect or unveil a link between topography and behaviour. Indeed, Thasher takes care to identify Chicago's "parks, boulevards and cemeteries", its 'Industrial property" and "Railroad property" in a key to the right of the image. Such areas are referred to throughout the book as "the playgrounds of the gang": "The playgrounds of the gang are areas where gang boys find unusual opportunities for amusement and adventure, not offered in their home territory. The most important of these are certain streets, the canals and the river, the lake front, the Loop, the newspaper alleys, the amusement parks, the forest preserves, and the railroad tracks" (p132). Red dots indicating gang territory are set against a grey urban plan on which are shown the names of major streets and buildings, relevant information such as "bright light area[s]", and most prominently of all, the racial demographic of each zone. Thrasher identifies the boundaries of "German", "Italian", "Dutch", "Hungarian", "Bohemian", "Black", "Polish", "Jewish", "Mexican" and "Cosmopolitan" territories, echoing his analysis of Chicago as "a mosaic of foreign colonies with conflicting social heritages" (p4). Names of specific gangs also accompany some of the dots, such as the "Cicero Bunch" and the "West Siders", and further annotations show where there was "gang conflict", "gambling" and a "dope gang". In addition to the demographic borders, Thrashers draws in the "frontiers" between gangs of different ethnicites, such as the "Polish-Jewish Frontier" and the "Irish & Swedish Frontiers". Thrasher's map provides an effective visual representation of his perceptive analysis of Chicago's gang culture. 'The Gang' were soon considered a seminal work in the study of gangs and urban society, and became one of the leading projects of the Chicago School of Sociology. Rare. We have been able to locate just nine examples of Thrasher's original map, all held in institutions located in the United States. This may be due to the fact that the 1927 edition of 'The Gang' was overtaken in 1963 by a new and highly edited version with an extensive introduction and notes by James Short. The Situation Complex: Revisiting Frederic Thrasher's The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago, Greg Dimitriadis, University of Chicago Press, 2006.