About this title: Published in 1890, "How The Other Half Lives" was an instant best seller in the United States. This critical edition is based on the 1901 edition of the work, provided by The Jacob A. Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. 'Contexts' includes a section on Riis in his own words in addition to his contemporaries' reaction to the ...
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub Date: 4/15/1996 Binding: Paperback Pages: 274. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
Date Published: 1957-06
ISBN-13:9780809000128ISBN:0809000121
Description: Good. Tight and bright, spine uncreased, edge wear, corners bumped, bookstore sticker across lower spine, hole punched thorugh back cover, name written and blacked out on first page, some light underlining on first forty pages, a great copy for a class. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications, NY
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780486220123ISBN:0486220125
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 233 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Unabridged republication of the text of the 1901 edition originally published by Scribner & Sons. Cover has some small creases and tears, rubbing around edges. Paper is torn off on back and spine where sticker was. Price sticker inside, ink mark on back. No creasing on spine. Moderate highlighting. Solid and nice otherwise. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Publications, New York
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780486220123ISBN:0486220125
Description: Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Shelf wear with light creasing to the covers; pages thumbed. 233 pages with 100 photographs from the Riis Collection. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover, New York
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780486220123ISBN:0486220125
Description: VG+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xiv, 233 pp., illus. w/ 100 photographs from the Riis collection, + 17 additional illus. Oblong format. Stiff pictorial wraps. Blemish at top rear binding corner, a bit rubbed at head of spine and corners. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hill and Wang, New York, 1957
ISBN-13:9780809000128ISBN:0809000121
Description: Octavo, Softcover, VG to near fine in Black and White pictorial Wraps. 231pp. A classic indictment of slum life; doing away with foul tenements of NY and call action to discriminating housing. Filthy firetraps, a social document showing what slum life breeds (drugs, prostitution, shootings, drop outs, crime etc). 231 pp. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1957
ISBN-13:9780809000128ISBN:0809000121
Description: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 8 X 5 1/4. Pages are tight, bright and clean. Binding straight and firm. Covers, spine, edges and corners very good. No apparent wear. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment, this is the one, a nice volume. 231 pages, statistical appendixes. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780140436792ISBN:0140436790
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1997-11-01
ISBN-13:9780140436792ISBN:0140436790
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780140436792. read more
"Amazing book!This book changed history in new york when it was published in late 1800's. It tackled poverty like never before. 2 points - if you read it get the edition with his famous pictures in it, and remember that this book was written in late 1800's so many of the accepted prejudices of that time are held by the author. But very eye-opening."
"An interesting, if patronizing, discussion of poverty in 1890s New York. I'd originally thought it was more of a book of photography (bad on both me and my US History teachers), and so I was a little disappointed when I found that the photographs were so poorly reproduced in the Penguin edition of the book.
Unfinished because it started to get a little repetitive and didactic, and because it was due back to the library."
"This is one of the best early sociological studies in American history. Riis blew apart many of the mythologies of unfettered prosperity that circulated at the time. Unfortunately, the poor folk he studied represent more than "half" of the United States' and world's populations."
"What is shocking is that this book is still lauded by history texts as part of the gradual enlightenment of American public opinion by muckrakering journalists. The book is really an endless series of crude stereotypes of different ethnic groups and Riis's often laughable attempts to improve their living conditions by kicking them out of their homes. He says it all in the book: "To fight poverty, you must fight the poor."
And does he fight them! Almost all he does in this book is tip off the police to overcrowded tenements or late-night beer dives (where the poor could gain a seat to sleep in for two cents) and watch as they are thrown outside into the cold. Where these people were supposed to go or to what benefit remains an unspoken mystery.
Riis sees the problem as fundamentally a cultural one of the poor, and specifically of the poor among New York's white ethnic groups (as a Republican he has some sympathy for the then-Republican voting blacks). The ethnics are poor because they refuse to see the light and love middle-class homes. The Jews are "filthy," the Chinese are "inscrutable" and "love gambling," the Italians are morons and fools, the Bohemians (the ethnic not artistic group) are "the worst of all." It is just one ridiculous belabored stereotype after another.
When people today cite the wonders of the earlier progressives in improving living conditions in New York City, this is what they're referring to. That they undoubtedly did more harm than good is abundantly apparent from reading their staunchest advocate and defender."
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