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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective
Chapter One: “A New Serfdom”: Labor Laws, Vagrancy Statutes, and Labor Discipline in England, 1350–1800
Chapter Two: The Neglected Soldier as Vagrant, Revenger, Tyrant Slayer in Early Modern England
Chapter Three: “Takin’ It to the Streets”: Henry Mayhew and the Language of the Underclass in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London
Chapter Four: Vagrant India: Famine, Poverty, and Welfare under Colonial Rule
Chapter Five: Vagrancy in Mauritius and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Plantation World
Chapter Six: Doing Favors for Street People: Official Responses to Beggars and Vagrants in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Chapter Seven: Vagabondage and Siberia: Disciplinary Modernism in Tsarist Russia
Chapter Eight: “Tramps in the Making”: The Troubling Itinerancy of America’s News Peddlers
Chapter Nine: Between Romance and Degradation: Navigating the Meanings of Vagrancy in North America, 1870–1940
Chapter Ten: The “Travelling Native”: Vagrancy and Colonial Control in British East Africa
Chapter Eleven: Thought Reform: The Chinese Communists and the Reeducation of Beijing’s Beggars, Vagrants, and Petty Thieves
Chapter Twelve: Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Chapter Thirteen: Subversive Accommodations: Doing Homeless in Tokyo’s Ueno Park
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