How the Other Half Lives bookcover

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis 

(Author)

4.9/5.0
21,000+ Reviews
Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world

Description

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 Riiss.

Product Details

PublisherBedford Books
Publish DateSeptember 24, 2010
Pages320
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780312574017
Dimensions8.1 X 5.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.6 pounds

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.

Earn by promoting books

Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.sign up to affiliate program link
Become an affiliate