How the Other Half Lives

Riis, Jacob A. / Hasia R Diner - editor

ISBN 10: 0393930262 / ISBN 13: 9780393930269

Published by W.W. Norton, 2009

About this Item

554 pp. Light outer edge curl. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and uncreased.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How the Other Half Lives
• Publisher: W.W. Norton
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393930262
• ISBN 13: 9780393930269
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

An unusually rich “Contexts” section includes autobiographical writings by Riis, observations of “the other half” by Riis contemporaries, including William T. Elsing, Thomas Byrnes, William Dean Howells, Lilliam W. Betts, John Spargo, and Lillian Wald, and contemporary evaluations of Riis and his seminal book by, among others, Warren P. Adams, Joseph B. Gilder, Margaret Burton, and Theodore Roosevelt.How the Other Half LivesA Chronology of Riis’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Author

Hasia R. Diner is Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History and Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of The Jews of the United States, 1645 to 2000; Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration; Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present; The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America; In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935; and A Time for Gathering, 1820-1880: The Second Migration (Volume 2 of The Jewish People of America, edited by Henry Feingold) and coeditor of Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections.