How the Other Half Lives

Studies among the Tenements of New York

By:

Jacob A Riis

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The John Harvard Library

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Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country." An anatomy of New York City's slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of "the other half," who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from Riis's original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader.

Author Biography:

Sam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University.

Release date Australia

April 15th, 2010

Author

Jacob A Riis

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by Sam Bass Warner
Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg

Illustrations

33 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 2 tables

Pages

368

Series

The John Harvard Library

Dimensions

140x210x28

ISBN-13

9780674049321

Product ID

3946324

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