How the Other Half Lives
Jacob A Riis author Lucy Sante editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:1st Nov '97
Should be back in stock very soon

First published in 1890, this is the author's study of the slums of New York, where Italians, Jews, "Bohemians", Blacks and Chinese struggled against the effects of poverty, alcohol and lack of education. The author's use of photographs to put faces to his stories is recognized as a landmark in photojournalism and as a result of his book, many reforms did take place to assist New York's poor.
ISBN: 9780140436792
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 12mm
Weight: 187g
256 pages