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Citizen Hobo by Todd DePastino
How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America, forging a counterculture known as "hobohemia". This work tells the epic story of hobohemia, drawing a new interpretation of the American century in the process.In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of the veritable army of homeless men that swept across America after the Civil War 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. In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation. |
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| Author(s) : Todd DePastino | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0226143783 | ISBN-13 : 9780226143781 |
| RRP : £20.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 04/11/2003
Publisher : The University of Chicago Press
Page Length : 352mm
Page Size : 238mm