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How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class... Read Full Overview

AN HISTORICAL CLASSIC
How the Other Half Lives is an overview of the terrible living conditions in New York City at the end of the 19th century. It is cited as an influence of later "muckracking" journalism.
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Includes the Original Illustrations... Read Full Overview

2022 Hardcover Reprint of the 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century... Read Full Overview

During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East... Read Full Overview

A classic early example of "muck-racking" journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt, "How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums... Read Full Overview

""How The Other Half Lives"" is a non-fiction book written by Jacob A. Riis and published in 1890. The book is a groundbreaking work of photojournalism that exposes the living conditions of the poor and working-class residents of New York City's tenement buildings in the late... Read Full 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.

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event... Read Full Overview

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1901 Scribner edition and includes all 47 of Riis's unforgettable photographs, along with 2 maps. It is accompanied by Hasia Diner's insightful introduction and detailed explanatory annotations.

An unusually rich "Contexts"... Read Full Overview

How the Other Half Lives (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle... Read Full Overview

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS EDITION - 123 new endnotes that provide insight to the contemporary reader to understand the historical, political and social context of Riis's story. - Edited by Lorenzo Dom nguez, bestselling author and award winning New York City street photographer whose... Read Full Overview

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