دانلود کتاب Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650–1750

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nList of Tables\nAcknowledgements\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction: Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones\n Masterless Men\n Being vagrant in England between 1650 and 1750\n Definitions: Rogue, vagrant, and vagabond\n Stereotyping, sexuality, and space\n A cultural and social history of vagrancy\n The arguments\n1. The Assumption of Idleness\n Idleness, the ‘path of mistake’\n The argument\n Indenture and the unsettled state\n Transport and impressment\n Improvement and idleness\n Improvement by the numbers\n Identification and vagrant news\n Conclusions: The assumption endures\n2. Rogue Ballads\n Cheap print and popular roguery\n Ballads as a historical source and the problems of historical laughter\n ‘Carefree’ by choice\n ‘Mending kettles handsomely’\n ‘Forlorn travellers’\n ‘Revenge a widdowe’s wrong’\n Health as morality\n Vagrancy in ballad woodcuts\n Conclusions\n3. Hidden Histories: Vagrancy, Migration, and Crisis in Local England, 1650–1750\n Introduction\n Settlement, migration, and demography\n Constables’ accounts and their ambiguities\n Quantifying social description\n Dalton’s Countrey Justice and Gardiner’s Compleat Constable\n A case study of Grandborough, Warwickshire: 1671–1704\n The paid private contractor\n Quarter sessions, petty sessions, and (mis)classification\n Vagrant stories, vagrant spaces\n4. Masterless Women: The Female Vagrant in English Culture and Society, 1650–1750\n Picaras and precarity\n The gendering of homelessness\n Vagrancy, sex, and domestic service\n Masterless women with children\n Absent husband: Vagrant wife\n ‘Why Do You Not Take Us Up?’ Ann West, Mary Davis, and one vagrant family\n Conclusions\nConclusion: ‘But Words Will Never Hurt Me’\n ‘The beggar-king of Ithaca’\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex