City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
- ISBN-10
- 0393311082
- ISBN-13
- 9780393311082
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 462
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Description
Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.
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