How the Other Half Lives

How the Other Half Lives
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Publisher : Applewood Books
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781458500427
ISBN-13 : 145850042X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How the Other Half Lives by : Jacob Riis

Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How the Other Half Lives

How the Other Half Lives
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780312574017
ISBN-13 : 0312574010
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How the Other Half Lives by : Jacob A. Riis

Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob A. Riis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. 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. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.

The Other Half

The Other Half
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0393060233
ISBN-13 : 9780393060232
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Other Half by : Tom Buk-Swienty

Download or read book The Other Half written by Tom Buk-Swienty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the late-nineteenth-century social reformer draws on previously unexamined diaries and letters to trace his immigration to America, work as a police reporter for the "New York Tribune," and pivotal contributions as a muckraker and progressive.

Rediscovering Jacob Riis

Rediscovering Jacob Riis
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015082718951
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rediscovering Jacob Riis by : Bonnie Yochelson

Download or read book Rediscovering Jacob Riis written by Bonnie Yochelson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 90 years after his death Jacob Riis is still considered a pioneering photographer. He was the first to document the New York slums, publicising in haunting photographs the plight of the urban poor at the height of European immigration to the city. But Riis always maintained that he 'was no good at all as a photographer' and in recent years has been disparaged for racist views and political opportunitism. Here, the complex legacy of Jacob Riis is explored and explained. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.

The Making of an American

The Making of an American
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9783387049732
ISBN-13 : 3387049730
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Making of an American by : Jacob A. Riis

Download or read book The Making of an American written by Jacob A. Riis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The American Way of Poverty

The American Way of Poverty
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Publisher : Nation Books
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781568587264
ISBN-13 : 1568587260
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The American Way of Poverty by : Sasha Abramsky

Download or read book The American Way of Poverty written by Sasha Abramsky and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0300209169
ISBN-13 : 9780300209167
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Jacob A. Riis by : Bonnie Yochelson

Download or read book Jacob A. Riis written by Bonnie Yochelson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigration, Riis and his camera captured some of the earliest, most powerful images of American urban poverty"--Jacket.