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Looking Backward & How the Other Half Lives

Reading discussion on "Looking Backward, 2000-1887" by Edward Bellamy & "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis. Discussion led by: John Sillito, PhD, WSU.

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Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7 p.m. – Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy & How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. Scholar: John Sillito PhD, WSU. Looking Backward 2000-1887 By Bellamy, Edward Editor Beaumont, Matthew 2009-09 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199552573 CHECK CATALOG Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years, the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. Broad streets …More How the Other Half Lives By Riis, Jacob 1971-06 - Dover Publications 9780486220123 CHECK CATALOG This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs. …More

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