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Author Shumsky, Neil L., 1944-

Title Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide / Neil Larry Shumsky
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 389 pages) : illustrations
Series Documentary and reference guides
Documentary and reference guides.
Contents pt. 1. Words and numbers -- pt. 2. Hoboes, tramps, and bums, 1790-1930 -- pt. 3. Migrants and transients, 1930-1960 -- pt. 4. Street people, bag ladies, and homeless people
Summary This book presents an investigation of homelessness in the United States, a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Homelessness -- United States -- History -- Sources
Homelessness -- United States -- History
Housing & homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Homelessness
United States
Genre/Form History
Sources
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011043428
ISBN 9780313377013
0313377014
1280119322
9781280119323
9786613523457
6613523453
9798216098812