Close

Urban communities

{
}
Book Cover: How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
By Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions.
Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower...
Read more
Published: 19/09/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140436792
RRP: $9.95

Subject

News

{ view all }
21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

Read more

Social Feed

{ }

Penguin TV

{ }

Pictures

{ }