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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beier, A. L. (Editor ), Ocobock, Paul, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 8.
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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.