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Cast out : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective /
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ;
no. 8. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "A new serfdom" : labor laws, vagracy statutes, and labor discipline in England, 1350-1800 / A.L. Beier
- The neglected soldier as vagrant, revenger, tyrant slayer in early modern England / Linda Woodbridge
- "Takin' it to the streets" : Henry Mayhew and the language of the underclass in mid-nineteenth century London / A.L. Beier
- Vagrant India : famine, poverty, and welfare under colonial rule / David Arnold
- Vagrancy in Mauritius and the nineteenth-century colonial plantation world / Richard B. Allen
- Doing favors for street people : official responses to beggars and vagrants in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Thomas H. Holloway
- Vagabondage and Siberia : disciplinary modernism in tsarist Russia / Andrew A. Gentes
- "Tramps in the making" : the troubling itinerancy of America's news peddlers / Vincent DiGirolamo
- Between romance and degradation : navigating the meanings of vagrancy in North America, 1870-1940 / Frank Tobias Higbie
- The "traveling native" : vagrancy and colonial control in British East Africa / Andrew Burton and Paul Ocobock.