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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 (Author)
Other Authors: Warner, Sam Bass, 1928- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Series:John Harvard library.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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