This edition, which is illustrated with the photos he used, brings to life the experience of Jacob Riis as he uncovered the truth of How the Other Half Lives.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible.
David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible.
A must-read for Americans whose family has been in the U.S. for only a few generations, this book tells what it was really like in the slums.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This book is a resource to navigate an unequal world, oriented around three key understandings of inequality as contingent, intersectional, and interrelated.