The Tramp in AmericaReaktion Books, 2004 M06 1 - 256 páginas This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes the "tramp scare" of the late nineteenth century and explores the assumption that tramps were invariably male and therefore a threat to women. Cresswell also examines tramps as comic figures and looks at the work of prominent American photographers which signaled a sympathetic portrayal of this often-despised group. Perhaps most significantly, The Tramp in America calls into question the common assumption that mobility played a central role in the production of American identity. “This is an effective, and sometimes touching, account of how a social phenomenon was created, classified and reclassified. The quality of the writing, the excellent illustrations and the high production standards give this reasonably-priced hardback a chance of appealing to a general audience . . . an important contribution to American studies, providing new perspectives on the significance of mobility and rootlessness at an important time in the development of the nation. Cresswell successfully illuminates the history of a disadvantaged and marginal group, while providing a lens by which to focus on the thinking and practices of the mainstream culture with which they dealt. As such, this book represents a considerable achievement.”—Cultural Geographies “An important book. Cresswell has made an important contribution to a homelessness literature still lacking a more sophisticated theoretical edge. Clearly written, beautifully illustrated and with a strong argument throughout, the book deserves to be widely read by students and practitioners alike.”—Progress in Human Geography |
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... threat to women in domestic environments. Another stereotype prevalent in medical discourse saw tramps as untrustworthy, diseased and of unsound heredity, thus suggesting reasons for their exclusion from democratic processes. Cresswell ...
... threat to women in domestic environments. Another stereotype prevalent in medical discourse saw tramps as untrustworthy, diseased and of unsound heredity, thus suggesting reasons for their exclusion from democratic processes. Cresswell ...
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... really end until the 1940s with World War Two), it began in the 1870S.The new figure of the tramp was described in terms common to other alarms, from health threats to agricultural and economic disasters. Tramps, Knowledge and Mobility.
... really end until the 1940s with World War Two), it began in the 1870S.The new figure of the tramp was described in terms common to other alarms, from health threats to agricultural and economic disasters. Tramps, Knowledge and Mobility.
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Tim Cresswell. other alarms, from health threats to agricultural and economic disasters. Familiar metaphors abounded. Tramps were pests, a disease. They descended on small rural towns like 'plagues of locusts'. They swarmed and stormed ...
Tim Cresswell. other alarms, from health threats to agricultural and economic disasters. Familiar metaphors abounded. Tramps were pests, a disease. They descended on small rural towns like 'plagues of locusts'. They swarmed and stormed ...
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... threat that he, or she, posed to respectable society. On the other, this mobility slotted quite nicely into an ideology that placed mobility right at the heart of American national identity. Running through this book is the delineation ...
... threat that he, or she, posed to respectable society. On the other, this mobility slotted quite nicely into an ideology that placed mobility right at the heart of American national identity. Running through this book is the delineation ...
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... threat to moral behaviour ... At the moment the refugee crosses the frontiers of his own world, his whole moral outlook, his attitude toward the divine order of things changes ... [The refugees'] conduct makes it obvious that we are ...
... threat to moral behaviour ... At the moment the refugee crosses the frontiers of his own world, his whole moral outlook, his attitude toward the divine order of things changes ... [The refugees'] conduct makes it obvious that we are ...
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Knowing the Tramp | 48 |
Gendering the Tramp | 87 |
Pathologizing the Tramp | 127 |
Picturing the Tramp | 171 |
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