| Description |
1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals Series |
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Routledge Revivals Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF VAGRANCY -- Chapter 1 The new poverty -- The de-sanctification of the poor -- A vagrant underworld -- The magisterial position -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 The growth of vagrancy -- The numbers issue -- Poverty: dimensions and structures -- Population growth and dispossession, 1500-1650 -- Wage-labour: a way out? -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Migrants and vagrants -- The rise of subsistence migration |
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The geography of vagrancy -- Explanations -- 'London cannot relieve England' -- Provincial towns -- Conclusions -- PART TWO THE STRUCTURE OF VAGRANCY -- Chapter 4 A promiscuous generation -- Fragmented families -- Alternative societies -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 On the road -- The road goes on -- Objectives -- Haunts and habitats -- Seasonal shifts -- Getting around -- Hospitality -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Dangerous trades -- The mutable world of work -- Traders and craftsmen -- Military men -- Entertainers -- Itinerant healers -- Errant clerks -- Wandering wizards -- Conclusions |
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PART THREE VAGRANTS, SOCIETY AND THE STATE -- Chapter 7 The seminary of vagabondage -- The beggar's burden -- Licensed and illicit gains -- The pitfalls of charity -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 The underworld uncovered -- Reality or illusion? -- Crime in the underworld: an overview -- Professional crime -- Crimes against persons -- Crimes against the state -- Conclusions -- Chapter 9 State policy: from Utopia to the penal colony -- The enforcement issue -- Modest proposals -- Inventions of absolutism -- Retribution -- Bridewell: a proto-penal institution that failed -- Conclusions -- Conclusions |
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Notes -- Appendix: Tables -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000967395 |
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1000967395 |
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