Cast Out : Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective -- Chapter One: "A New Serfdom": Labor Laws, Vagrancy Statutes, and Labor Discipline in England, 1350-1800 -- Chapter Two: The Neglected Soldier as Vagrant, Revenger, Tyrant Slayer in Early Modern England -- Chapter Three: "Takin' It to the Streets": Henry Mayhew and the Language of the Underclass in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London -- Chapter Four: Vagrant India: Famine, Poverty, and Welfare under Colonial Rule -- Chapter Five: Vagrancy in Mauritius and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Plantation World -- Chapter Six: Doing Favors for Street People: Official Responses to Beggars and Vagrants in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter Seven: Vagabondage and Siberia: Disciplinary Modernism in Tsarist Russia -- Chapter Eight: "Tramps in the Making": The Troubling Itinerancy of America's News Peddlers -- Chapter Nine: Between Romance and Degradation: Navigating the Meanings of Vagrancy in North America, 1870-1940 -- Chapter Ten: The "Travelling Native": Vagrancy and Colonial Control in British East Africa -- Chapter Eleven: Thought Reform: The Chinese Communists and the Reeducation of Beijing's Beggars, Vagrants, and Petty Thieves -- Chapter Twelve: Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Contemporary Papua New Guinea -- Chapter Thirteen: Subversive Accommodations: Doing Homeless in Tokyo's Ueno Park -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

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