Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of G ttingen (Philosophische Fakult t), language: English, abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city of New York underwent a tremendous change that is regarded as a complete "transformation of American culture" (Zurier). An abundance of scholarly works have been devoted to those developments that were of a geographic, economic...