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Record Nr.

UNINA9910316454803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2008

ISBN

9780896804609

0896804607

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; ; no. 8

Altri autori (Persone)

BeierA. L

OcobockPaul <1980->

Disciplina

362.5

Soggetti

Homelessness

Vagrancy

Poverty

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-382) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; IntroductionVagrancy and Homelessness in Globaland Historical Perspective; 1: "A New Serfdom"; 2: The Neglected Soldier as Vagrant, Revenger, Tyrant Slayer in Early Modern England; 3: "Takin' It to the Streets"; 4: Vagrant India; 5: Vagrancy in Mauritius and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Plantation World; 6: Doing Favors for Street People; 7: Vagabondage and Siberia; 8: "Tramps in the Making"; 9: Between Romance and Degradation; 10: The "Travelling Native"; 11: Thought Reform; 12: Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Contemporary Papua New Guinea; 13: Subversive Accommodations

Select BibliographyContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 governmental responses