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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 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 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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