Vagrants and Vagabonds Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic

Name: Vagrants and Vagabonds
Author: Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan

Auteur: Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan

Engels
Hardcover
9781479845255
08 januari 2019
280 pagina's

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The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States
Vagrants. Vagabonds. Hoboes. Identified by myriad names, the homeless and geographically mobile have been with us since the earliest periods of recorded history. In the early days of the United States, these poor migrants – consisting of everyone from work-seekers to runaway slaves – populated the roads and streets of major cities and towns. These individuals were a part of a social class whose geographical movements broke settlement laws, penal codes, and welfare policies. This book documents their travels and experiences across the Atlantic world, excavating their life stories from the records of criminal justice systems and relief organizations.
Vagrants and Vagabonds examines the subsistence activities of the mobile poor, from migration to wage labor to petty theft, and how local and state municipal authorities criminalized these activities, prompting extensive punishment. Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan examines the intertwined legal constructions, experiences, and responses to these so-called “vagrants,” arguing that we can glean important insights about poverty and class in this period by paying careful attention to mobility. This book charts why and how the itinerant poor were subject to imprisonment and forced migration, and considers the relationship between race and the right to movement and residence in the antebellum US. Ultimately, Vagrants and Vagabonds argues that poor migrants, the laws designed to curtail their movements, and the people charged with managing them, were central to shaping everything from the role of the state to contemporary conceptions of community to class and labor status, the spread of disease, and punishment in the early American republic.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 januari 2019
Aantal pagina's: 280
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Hoofdauteur: Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan
Hoofduitgeverij: New York University Press

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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 499 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociale & Ethische kwesties

Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

Armoede

Huisvesting

Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

Boeken
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels
Periode: ca. 1800-1910
Land: Verenigde Staten

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