The Battle with the Slum
American journalist JACOB AUGUST RIIS (1849-1914) was the man for whom the term muckraker was coined, and the reason why is perfectly stark in this collection of true stories from the slums of late-19th-century New York City. As a police reporter and photographer for several newspapers in the 1870s, Riis became intimate with-and disgusted by-the most crime-ridden areas of the city, which were inevitably the poorest and most overpopulated by desperate immigrants. An immigrant himself-Riis had emigrated from Denmark-his work had morphed, by the 1880s, into a humanitarian cry for help for the city's most impoverished citiz…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60520-299-0
- EAN: 9781605202990
- Produktnummer: 4829901
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 482 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.8 cm 638 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 638
Über den Autor
JACOB A. RIIS (1849-1914) a Danish immigrant who arrived in New York in 1870 became a newspaper reporter and a social reformer. Having experienced poverty firsthand, he explored the social conditions of the New York poor in articles and books, such as in How the Other Half Lives and The Battle with the Slum. He was also a social documentary photographer, who became famous for his early adoption of flash in photography.
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