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Overview"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; considering that no one has yet written of that Country."" An anatomy of New York City's slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of ""the other half,"" who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from Riis's original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jacob A. Riis , Sam Bass Warner, Jr. , Alan TrachtenbergPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: The Belknap Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780674049321ISBN 10: 0674049322 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 15 April 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |