How the Other Half Lives / Edition 2

by Jacob Riis, David Leviatin

Overview

This edition of How the Other Half Lives remains as faithful as possible to the original famed 1890 photo-text addressing the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era created by Jacob Riiss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312574017
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	09/22/2010
Series:	Bedford Cultural Editions Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

DAVID LEVIATIN (Ph.D., Harvard) 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 Spring: Notes and Voices from the New World (1993) and Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radicals in America (1989). He is also a freelance photographer whose photos have appeared in several major publications including the New York Times Magazine.

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