The Tramp In America

Author : Tim Cresswell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861895684

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The Tramp in America by Tim Cresswell Pdf

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

Author : Lisa Stein Haven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319404783

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Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp in America, 1947–77 by Lisa Stein Haven Pdf

This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his death in Switzerland in 1977. By considering factions of America as diverse as 8mm film collectors, Beat poets and writers and readers of Chaplin biographies, this cultural study determines conclusively that Chaplin’s Little Tramp never died, but in fact experienced a resurgence, which began slowly even before 1950 and was wholly in effect by 1965 and then confirmed by 1972, the year in which Chaplin returned to the United States for the final time, to receive accolades in both New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Oscar for a lifetime of achievement in film.

Author : John Francis Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Company
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025921019

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A Short American Tramp in the Fall of 1864 by John Francis Campbell Pdf

Author : Todd DePastino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226143804

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Citizen Hobo by Todd DePastino Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486117119

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A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain Pdf

Successor to Twain's first collection of travel memoirs takes a second look at Europe. This time, his amusement bears a more cynical cast, as he sees the sights through older and more experienced eyes.

Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
ISBN : HARVARD:HWYPPY

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A Tramp Across the Continent by Charles Fletcher Lummis Pdf

Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.

Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005517631

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Walking to Work by Eric H. Monkkonen Pdf

Author : Douglas Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317258698

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Good Company by Douglas Harper Pdf

Good Company: A Tramp Life, is a vivid portrait of a lifestyle long part of America's history, yet rapidly disappearing. The author traveled extensively by freight train to gain rich insights into the elusive world of the tramp. Richly illustrated with 85 photographs by the author, the book presents the homeless man as an individual who "drank, migrated, and worked at day labor" rather than the stereotype of a victim of alcoholism. The tramps with whom Harper shared boxcars and hobo jungles were the labor force that harvested the crops in most of the apple orchards in the Pacific Northwest. They were drawn to the harvest from across the United States and migrated primarily on freight trains, as had hobos in the 1930s. Although not without its problems, the tramp way of life is a fierce and independent culture that has been an integral part of our American identity and an important part of our agricultural economy. Since the first edition of this classic book was published by the University of Chicago Press, the tramp has virtually disappeared from the American social landscape. The agricultural labor force is now made up of Hispanic migrants. This significantly revised and updated edition contrasts this disappearing lifestyle with the homelessness of the modern era, which has been produced by different economic and sociological forces, all of which have worked against the continuation of the tramp as a social species. The new edition richly documents the transition in our society from "tramps" to urban homelessness and the many social, political, and policy changes attendant to this transformation. It also includes an additional thirty-five previously unpublished photographs from the original research.

Author : Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 087972479X

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Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film by Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller Pdf

Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture.

Author : William Henry Davies
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783863475215

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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by William Henry Davies Pdf

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?' (LEISURE BY W.H. DAVIES) Loneliness and criminality determined William Henry Davies’ childhood and teenage-years. At the age of 22 he decided to leave Wales for America to chance his luck abroad. But getting there was not as easy as expected. At that point in time, he became a tramp. In his best-known work THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP, Davies tells the story of his lifetime. He explains in a very intimate and touching way what it is like to grow up in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century. Furthermore, he describes how he felt during his vagabond life and what made him settle back in the UK. After all, Davies develops into the most popular poet of his time.

Author : Livingston Leon Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243819013

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Life and Adventures of A-no; 1, America's Most Celebrated Tramp by Livingston Leon Ray Pdf

Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801457135

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American Abyss by Daniel E. Bender Pdf

At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources—eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen—to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product of evolution and as the highest expression of civilization.Their discussions, he notes, are echoed today by the use of such terms as the "developed" and "developing" worlds. American industry was contrasted with the supposed savagery and primitivism discovered in tropical colonies, but observers who made those claims worried that industrialization, by encouraging immigration, child and women's labor, and large families, was reversing natural selection. Factories appeared to favor the most unfit. There was a disturbing tendency for such expressions of fear to favor eugenicist "remedies."Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, at a time when immigration again lies at the center of American economy and society, this book offers an alarming and pointed historical perspective on contemporary fears of immigrant laborers.

Author : John Francis Campbell
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357613881

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A Short American Tramp in the Fall of 1864 by John Francis Campbell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Leon Ray Livingston
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019372125

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Life and Adventures of A--No. 1, America's Most Celebrated Tramp by Leon Ray Livingston Pdf

Life and Adventures of A--No. 1 is an autobiographical account of the life of Leon Ray Livingston, one of America's most famous hobos. Livingston recounts his adventures crisscrossing the country on trains and living the hobo life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A fascinating account of a bygone era and a unique perspective on American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : J. F. (John Francis) 1822-188 Campbell
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 137310354X

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SHORT AMER TRAMP IN THE FALL O by J. F. (John Francis) 1822-188 Campbell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.