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Author : Maury Graham
Release : 1991
Genre : Tramps
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Book Synopsis A History of the Hoboes, Tramps, and Other Vagabonds by : Maury Graham
Download or read book A History of the Hoboes, Tramps, and Other Vagabonds written by Maury Graham. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steam Train Maury Graham
Release : 1985
Genre : Tramps
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Book Synopsis A History of the Hoboes, Tramps, and Other Vagabonds by : Steam Train Maury Graham
Download or read book A History of the Hoboes, Tramps, and Other Vagabonds written by Steam Train Maury Graham. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maury Graham
Release : 1985
Genre : Tramps
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Book Synopsis A History of the Hoboes, Tramps, and Other Vagabond by : Maury Graham
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Author : Owen Clayton
Release : 2023
Genre : American literature
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Book Synopsis Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos by : Owen Clayton
Download or read book Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos written by Owen Clayton. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
Author : Todd DePastino
Release : 2010-03-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Citizen Hobo by : Todd DePastino
Download or read book Citizen Hobo written by Todd DePastino. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes—with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers—became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.
