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How the Other Half Lives

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Second  Edition©2011  Jacob A. Riis; Edited by David Leviatin

ISBN:9781319242855

ISBN:9780312574017

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This edition of How the Other Half Lives remains as conscientious as possible to the original 1890 photo-text by Jacob Riis, which highlights the problems of tenement housing, immigration, urban life, and work at the beginning of the Progressive era.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
A Note about the Text and Images
List of Map and Illustrations
 
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: Framing the Poor – The Irresistibility of How the Other Half Lives
     The Flash: Jacob Riis Discovers Light
     The American Scene: The Search for Order
     How the Other Half Looks: Interpreting Riis’s View of Poverty
 
PART TWO.
     How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
 
PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
     1. Jacob A. Riis, The Other Half and How They Live: Story in Pictures, November 9, 1891
     2. Six Illustrations from the 1890 Edition of How the Other Half Lives
 
Appendixes
     A Jacob A. Riis Chronology (1849–1923)
     Questions for Consideration
     Selected Bibliography
 
Index

Jacob A. Riis

David Leviatin

David Leviatin has taught American studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of Rhode Island, and Charles University in Prague. In addition to the publication of numerous articles, Leviatin is the author of Prague Sprung: Notes and Voices from the New World (1993) and Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radials in America (1989). He is also a freelance photographer whose photos have appeared in several major publications including the New York Times Magazine.