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How the other half lives : authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Author: Jacob A Riis; Hasia R Diner
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.
Series: Norton critical edition.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Based on the 1901 edition of the work, provided by The Jacob A Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York, this title includes a section on Riis in his own words in addition to his  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Named Person: Jacob A Riis
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jacob A Riis; Hasia R Diner
ISBN: 9780393930269 0393930262
OCLC Number: 181139353
Description: xviii, 554 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Text of How the Other Half Lives --
Contexts --
Map: Lower Manhattan, Late 1800s --
Map: The Five Points in the 1800s --
About Riis - in his own words --
from The Making of an American / Jacob Riis --
Riis's contemporaries observe the "Other Half" --
from The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work among Them / Charles Loring Brace --
Tenement-House Morality / J. O. S. Huntington --
Poor in Great Cities / William T. Elsing --
"Nurseries of Crime" / Thomas Byrnes --
"The Housing of the Poor" / Marcus T. Reynolds --
from A Daughter of the Tenements / Edward W. Townsend --
from The Jewish East Side, 1881-1924 / William Dean Howells --
from First Report of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, 1902-3 --
Tenement House Reform: Its Practical Results in the Battle Row District, New York / Francis R. Cope, Jr. --
from The Leaven in a Great City / Lillian W. Betts --
Proposals Affecting Immigration / John J. D. Trenor --
from The Bitter Cry of the Children / John Spargo --
"Neighbors" / Anonymous --
from The House on Henry Street / Lillian Wald --
Contemporary evaluations of Riis and how the other half lives --
"Boston and 'The Other Half'" / Warren P. Adams --
"The Making of Jacob A. Riis" / Joseph B. Gilder --
from Comrades in Service / Margaret Burton --
from An Autobiography / Theodore Roosevelt --
from The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens / Lincoln Steffens --
Criticism --
from Jacob A. Riis: Police Reporter, Reformer, Useful Citizen / Louise Ware --
Jacob Riis / Charles J. Lotz --
from From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States / Robert H. Bremner --
from The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917 / Roy Lubove --
Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen / Alexander Alland, Sr. --
from Jacob A. Riis and the American City / James B. Lane --
from From Main Street to State Street: Town, City, and Community in America / Park Dixon Goist --
from The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day / Beaumont Newhall --
"Jacob Riis and the Jews" / Richard Tuerk --
from Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 / Peter B. Hales --
from Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 / Maren Stange --
from The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum / Keith Gandal --
from Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925 / Katrina Irving --
from Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000 / Joel Schwartz --
from Slumming: Morality and Space in New York City from "City Mysteries" to the Harlem Renaissance / Robert M. Dowling --
from "Urban Humanity": Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility / Joseph Entin --
"Newsboy Funerals: Tales of Sorrow and Solidarity in Urban America" / Vincent DiGirolamo --
"Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900" / Timothy J. Gilfoyle --
Jacob Riis: A Chronology.
Series Title: Norton critical edition.
Responsibility: Jacob Riis ; edited by Hasia R. Diner ; with photographs from the Jacob A. Riis collection at the Museum of the City of New York.

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