How the Other Half Lives - A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions, Band 0) - Softcover

Riis, Jacob; Diner, Hasia R.

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ISBN 10: 0393930262 ISBN 13: 9780393930269

Verlag: Norton, 2009

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Published in 1890, "How The Other Half Lives" was an instant best seller in the United States. This critical edition is based on the 1901 edition of the work, provided by The Jacob A. Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. 'Contexts' includes a section on Riis in his own words in addition to his contemporaries' reaction to the reporter and his book. 'Criticism' consists of nineteen critical essays on urban issues, photography and Jacob Riis. A chronology and bibliography are included.

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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.

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• Verlag: Norton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393930262
• ISBN 13: 9780393930269
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
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