Citizen Hobo : How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America /

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In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road a...

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Autor principal: DePastino, Todd (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
HISTORY / General.
homelessness, houseless, hobo, civil war, hobohemia, counterculture, postwar, trauma, mental illness, opting out, history, masculinity, manliness, freedom, independence, whiteness, manhood, downtown, urban, space, citizenship, traveling, movement, 19th century, 20th, tramps, marginality, subculture, diaries, letters, memoir, movies, literature, police reports, criminalization, social norms, normative, the road, idling, consumption, capitalism, sexuality, nonfiction, sociology, gender, inequality, alienation, suburbs, welfare, government, home.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I. THE RISE OF HOBOHEMIA, 1870-1920
  • Part II. HOBOHEMIA AND HOMELESSNESS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
  • Part III. RESETTLING THE HOBOARMY, 1920-1980
  • Part IV. THE ENDURING LEGACY. Homelessness and American Culture since 1980
  • Notes
  • Index

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