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Title Cast out : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective / edited by A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock.

Imprint Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.

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Series Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 8
Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-382) and index.
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Contents "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.
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Summary 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 the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. In this ambitious collection, vagrancy and homelessness are used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to social and gov.
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Language English.
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Subject Homelessness.
Poverty.
Vagrancy.
Itinérance.
Pauvreté.
Vagabondage.
homelessness.
poverty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY -- General.
Homelessness
Poverty
Vagrancy
Added Author Beier, A. L., editor.
Ocobock, Paul, 1980- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cast out. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008 9780896802629 (DLC) 2008027559 (OCoLC)192056183
ISBN 0896804607 (electronic bk.)
9780896804609 (electronic bk.)
9780896802629 (electronic bk.)
0896802620 (electronic bk.)
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DEBSZ 410566438
DEBSZ 423655426
NZ1 14241366
AU@ 000075749806

 
    
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