Homeless Lives in American Cities Interrogating Myth and Locating Co

Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social

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10.1057/9781137405647 - Homeless Lives in American Cities, Philip Webb

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10.1057/9781137405647 - Homeless Lives in American Cities, Philip Webb

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Homeless Lives in American Cities

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Interrogating Myth and Locating Community

Philip Webb

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Homeless Lives in American Cities

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Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-37422-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Webb, Philip, 1971– Homeless lives in American cities : interrogating myth and locating community / by Philip Webb. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-137-37422-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Homeless persons—United States. 2. Homelessness—United States. 3. Cities and towns—Growth—Social aspects. I. Title. HV4505.W33 2014 305.5'6920973—dc23

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Introduction Part I

1

Formation of Homelessness

15

1

The Fin-de-Siècle Homeless City

17

2

Anti-Semitic Roots of Homelessness

49

Part II

Consolidating Homelessness

79

3

Disc