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Citizen hobo : how a century of homelessness shaped America /
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." Jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1: Rise of hobohemia, 1870-1920. "The great army of tramps": The making of America's tramp army ; Tasting of the "Fountain of Indolence" ; Origin myths of tramping
- The other side of the road: "The broken home circle" ; From patriarch to pariah ; "From the fraternity of haut beaus"
- "Hallelujah, I'm a bum!": The opening of the wageworkers' frontier ; The main stem ; "(White) man's country" ; Hobosexuality
- pt. 2. Hobohemia and homelessness in the early twentieth century. The politics of hobohemia: Organizing the main stem ; "The song of the jungles"
- "A civilization without homes": Reforming the main stem ; "The hotel spirit" ; The comic tramp
- pt. 3. Resettling the hobo army, 1920-1980. The decline and fall of hobohemia: The closing of the wageworker's frontier ; Contesting hobohemia
- Forgotten men: A New Deal for the American homeless ; Folklores of homelessness
- Coming home: The decline and fall of skid row ; Dharma bums and easy riders
- pt. 4. The enduring legacy : homelessness and American culture since 1980. Rediscovering homelessness: The new homeless ; Romancing the road, surviving the streets.