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How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York. / Jacob A. Riis ; edited by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. ; introduction by Alan Trachtenberg. txt

Por: Colaborador(es): Series The John Harvard library | John Harvard libraryEditor: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010Descripción: 185p. ill. ; photo ; 26 cm; 1 online resource (xxxix, 315 pages) : illustrationsTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • computer
  • unmediaded
Tipo de soporte:
  • online resource
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674056825
  • 9780674056824
  • 9781438296630
Tema(s): Género/Forma: Clasificación CDD:
  • 305.5/69097471
Clasificación LoC:
  • HV4046.N6 R22 2010
Recursos en línea:
Contenidos:
Genesis of the tenement -- The awakening -- The mixed crowd -- The down town back-alleys -- The italian in New York -- The bend -- A raid on the stale-beer dives -- The cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- The sweaters of Jewtown -- The Bohemians-tenement-house cigarmaking -- The color line in New York -- The common herd -- The problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- The street Arab -- The reign of rum -- The harvest of tares -- The working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- The wrecks and the waste -- The man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands.
Resumen: 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308) and index.

Genesis of the tenement -- The awakening -- The mixed crowd -- The down town back-alleys -- The italian in New York -- The bend -- A raid on the stale-beer dives -- The cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- The sweaters of Jewtown -- The Bohemians-tenement-house cigarmaking -- The color line in New York -- The common herd -- The problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- The street Arab -- The reign of rum -- The harvest of tares -- The working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- The wrecks and the waste -- The man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands.

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.

Description based upon print version of record.

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Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Chronology of Jacob A. Riis's Life
  • How the Other Half Lives
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Genesis of the Tenement
  • The Awakening
  • The Mixed Crowd
  • The Downtown Back Alleys
  • The Italian in New York
  • The Bend
  • A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives
  • The Cheap Lodging Houses
  • Chinatown
  • Jewtown
  • The Sweaters of Jewtown
  • The Bohemians-Tenement House Cigarmaking
  • The Color Line in New York
  • The Common Herd
  • The Problem of the Children
  • Waifs of the City's Slums
  • The Street Arab
  • The Reign of Rum
  • The Harvest of Tares
  • The Working Girls of New York
  • Pauperism in the Tenements

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

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