O`Brassill-Kulfan Kristin Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic 9781479845255

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Автор: O`Brassill-Kulfan Kristin
Название: Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic
ISBN: 9781479845255
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Бедность и безработица

Жилье и бездомность

ISBN-10: 1479845256
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 08.01.2019
Серия: Early american places
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 12 black and white illustrations
Размер: 162 x 238 x 25
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Social History,HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Подзаголовок: Poverty and mobility in the early american republic
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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.

Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic, O`Brassill-Kulfan Kristin