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Cast out : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective
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Cast out : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective

Author: A L Beier; Paul R Ocobock
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Series: Research in international studies., Global and comparative studies series ;, no. 8.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Cast out.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)608312927
Online version:
Cast out.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)609901316
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: A L Beier; Paul R Ocobock
ISBN: 9780896802629 0896802620
OCLC Number: 192056183
Description: vii, 396 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective / Paul Ocobock --
"A new serfdom" : labor laws, vagrancy 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 peddlars / Vincent DiGirolamo --
Between romance and degradation : navigating the meanings of vagrancy in North America / Frank Tobia Higbie --
The "travelling native" : vagrancy and colonial control in British East Africa / Andrew Burton and Paul Ocobock --
Thought reform : the Chinese communists and the reeducation of Beijing's beggars, vagrants, and petty thieves / Aminda M. Smith --
Imposing vagrancy legislation in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Robert Gordon --
Subversive accommodations : doing homeless in Tokyo's Ueno Park / Abby Margolis.
Series Title: Research in international studies., Global and comparative studies series ;, no. 8.
Responsibility: edited by A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock.
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