How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library)
Description:
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.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780674049321
Frequently Asked Questions about How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library)
The price for the book starts from $8.49 on Amazon and is available from 33 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library) book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library) book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library) book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 5,196,466 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
Not enough insights yet.