How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York /

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; cons...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Warner, Sam Bass, 1928- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Colección:John Harvard library.
Temas:
Tenement houses > New York (State) > New York.
Poor > New York (State) > New York.
Pauvres > New York (État) > New York.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Pictorial works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Genesis of the tenement
  • The awakening
  • The mixed crowd
  • The down town back-alleys
  • The italian in New York
  • The bend
  • A raid on the stale-beer dives
  • The cheap lodging-houses
  • Chinatown
  • Jewtown
  • The sweaters of Jewtown
  • The Bohemians-tenement-house cigarmaking
  • The color line in New York
  • The common herd
  • The problem of the children
  • Waifs of the city's slums
  • The street Arab
  • The reign of rum
  • The harvest of tares
  • The working girls of New York
  • Pauperism in the tenements
  • The wrecks and the waste
  • The man with the knife
  • What has been done
  • How the case stands.

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