Author:
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
Descriptionxviii, 554 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Text of How the Other Half Lives -- Contexts -- Map: Lower Manhattan, Late 1800s -- Map: The Five Points in the 1800s -- About Riis--in his own words -- from The Making of an American / Jacob Riis -- Riis's contemporaries observe the "Other Half" -- from The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work among Them / Charles Loring Brace -- Tenement-House Morality / J.O.S. Huntington -- Poor in Great Cities / William T. Elsing -- "Nurseries of Crime" / Thomas Byrnes -- "The Housing of the Poor" / Marcus T. Reynolds -- from A Daughter of the Tenements / Edward W. Townsend -- from The Jewish East Side, 1881-1924 / William Dean Howells -- from First Report of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, 1902-3 -- Tenement House Reform: Its Practical Results in the Battle Row District, New York / Francis R. Cope, Jr. -- from The Leaven in a Great City / Lillian W. Betts -- Proposals Affecting Immigration / John J.D. Trenor -- from The Bitter Cry of the Children / John Spargo -- "Neighbors" / Anonymous -- from The House on Henry Street / Lillian Wald -- Contemporary evaluations of Riis and how the other half lives -- "Boston and 'The Other Half'" / Warren P. Adams -- "The Making of Jacob A. Riis" / Joseph B. Gilder -- from Comrades in Service / Margaret Burton -- from An Autobiography / Theodore Roosevelt -- from The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens / Lincoln Steffens -- Criticism -- from Jacob A. Riis: Police Reporter, Reformer, Useful Citizen / Louise Ware -- Jacob Riis / Charles J. Lotz -- from From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States / Robert H. Bremner -- from The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917 / Roy Lubove -- Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen / Alexander Alland, Sr. -- from Jacob A. Riis and the American City / James B. Lane -- from From Main Street to State Street: Town, City, and Community in America / Park Dixon Goist -- from The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day / Beaumont Newhall -- "Jacob Riis and the Jews" / Richard Tuerk -- from Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 / Peter B. Hales -- from Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 / Maren Stange -- from The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum / Keith Gandal -- from Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925 / Katrina Irving -- from Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000 / Joel Schwartz -- from Slumming: Morality and Space in New York City from "City Mysteries" to the Harlem Renaissance / Robert M. Dowling -- from "Urban Humanity": Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility / Joseph Entin -- "Newsboy Funerals: Tales of Sorrow and Solidarity in Urban America" / Vincent DiGirolamo -- "Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900" / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- Jacob Riis: A Chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-554).
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
