How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York: With Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Riis, Jacob A; Leviatin, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312574010 ISBN 13: 9780312574017

Publisher: Bedford Books, 2010

Synopsis

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 Riis's.

About this title

Product Description:

[ How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York By ( Author ) Sep-2010 Paperback

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312574010
• ISBN 13: 9780312574017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320