000			03748nam a22004813i 4500
001			EBC4573674
003			MiAaPQ
005			20240729130602.0
006			m o d |
007			cr cnu||||||||
008			240724s2018 xx o ||||0 eng d
020			_a9781472589958 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9781472589941
035			_a(MiAaPQ)EBC4573674
035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL4573674
035			_a(CaPaEBR)ebr11233400
035			_a(OCoLC)936549405
040			_aMiAaPQ _beng _erda _epn _cMiAaPQ _dMiAaPQ
050		4	_aHV4545.A3 -- .H583 2016eb
082	0		_a364.148094209032
100	1		_aHitchcock, David.
245	1	0	_aVagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing Plc, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a1 online resource (252 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCultures of Early Modern Europe Series
505	0		_aCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones -- Masterless Men -- Being vagrant in England between 1650 and 1750 -- Definitions: Rogue, vagrant, and vagabond -- Stereotyping, sexuality, and space -- A cultural and social history of vagrancy -- The arguments -- 1. The Assumption of Idleness -- Idleness, the 'path of mistake' -- The argument -- Indenture and the unsettled state -- Transport and impressment -- Improvement and idleness -- Improvement by the numbers -- Identification and vagrant news -- Conclusions: The assumption endures -- 2. Rogue Ballads -- Cheap print and popular roguery -- Ballads as a historical source and the problems of historical laughter -- 'Carefree' by choice -- 'Mending kettles handsomely' -- 'Forlorn travellers' -- 'Revenge a widdowe's wrong' -- Health as morality -- Vagrancy in ballad woodcuts -- Conclusions -- 3. Hidden Histories: Vagrancy, Migration, and Crisis in Local England, 1650-1750 -- Introduction -- Settlement, migration, and demography -- Constables' accounts and their ambiguities -- Quantifying social description -- Dalton's Countrey Justice and Gardiner's Compleat Constable -- A case study of Grandborough, Warwickshire: 1671-1704 -- The paid private contractor -- Quarter sessions, petty sessions, and (mis)classification -- Vagrant stories, vagrant spaces -- 4. Masterless Women: The Female Vagrant in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 -- Picaras and precarity -- The gendering of homelessness -- Vagrancy, sex, and domestic service -- Masterless women with children -- Absent husband: Vagrant wife -- 'Why Do You Not Take Us Up?' Ann West, Mary Davis, and one vagrant family -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: 'But Words Will Never Hurt Me' -- 'The beggar-king of Ithaca'.
505	8		_aNotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aVagrancy - Great Britain - History - 17th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aKümin, Beat.
700	1		_aCowan, Brian.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHitchcock, David _tVagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 _dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2018 _z9781472589941
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aCultures of Early Modern Europe Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4573674 _zClick to View
999			_c112505 _d112505