How the Other Half Lives - Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Originally published by same publisher in 1970, with the addition of an introduction, chronology of Riis's life, and a selected bibliography. Zusammenfassung A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half'! who might well have inhabited another country. Inhaltsverzeichnis * List of Illustrations * Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg * 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jacob A Riis, Jacob A. Riis
• Con la collaborazione di: Alan Trachtenberg (Editore), Sam Bass Warner (Editore), Alan Trachtenberg (Introduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.04.2010
• EAN: 9780674049321
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04932-1
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 139 mm x 211 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: John Harvard Library; The John Harvard Library; John Harvard Library (Paperbac
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poverty, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Urban communities, US South: South Atlantic States