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A.L. Beier, Paul Ocobock · 2008

136,318 words · about 9 h 33 min to read

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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Beier, A.L., Ocobock, Paul (2008), Cast Out, open access publisher - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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Authors
A.L. Beier, Paul Ocobock
Language
English
Published
2008
Length
136,318 words · about 9 h 33 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

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Front matter

EDITED BY A. L. BEIER & PAUL OCOBOCK

VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS IN

CAST OUT

Chapter Four

Vagrant India: Famine, Poverty, and Welfare under Colonial Rule David Arnold 117

CHAPTER FIVE Vagrancy in Mauritius and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Plantation World Richard B. Allen 140

CHAPTER SIX Doing Favors for Street People: Official Responses to Beggars and Vagrants in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Thomas H. Holloway 162

CHAPTER SEVEN Vagabondage and Siberia: Disciplinary Modernism in Tsarist Russia Andrew A. Gentes 184

CHAPTER EIGHT “Tramps in the Making”: The Troubling Itinerancy of America’s News Peddlers Vincent DiGirolamo 209

CHAPTER NINE Between Romance and Degradation: Navigating the Meanings of Vagrancy in North America, 1870-1940 Frank Tobias Higbie 250

CHAPTER TEN The “Travelling Native”: Vagrancy and Colonial Control in British East Africa Andrew Burton and Paul Ocobock 270 vi | Contents

CHAPTER ELEVEN Thought Reform: The Chinese Communists and the Reeducation of Beijing’s Beggars, Vagrants, and Petty Thieves Aminda M. Smith 302

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