Download or read book A University Tramp written by Orrin Z. Hubbell and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Day With a Tramp written by Walter Augustus Wyckoff and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Day With a Tramp: And Other Days The following narratives, like those published in the series of "The Workers," East and West, are drawn from notes taken during an expedition made ten years ago. In the summer of 1891 I began an experiment of earning my living as a day laborer and continued it until, in the course of eighteen months, I had worked my way from Connecticut to California. In justice to the narratives it should be explained that they are submitted simply for what they are, the casual observations of a student almost fresh from college whose interest in life led him to undertake a work for which he had no scientific training. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Library of the University of California Classic Reprint written by Charles A. Kofoid and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Library of the University of California His book claims to be nothing more than the experiences and impressions of a tramp in Spain. My journey has not been a mere caprice. It was undertaken with the object of getting a practical knowledge of the condition of agriculture in Spain, and of learning to understand the life and social conditions of the common people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Tramp at Home Classic Reprint written by Lee Meriwether and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tramp at Home Herbert spencer argues that if left to themselves private individuals would perceive what measures are desirable for their welfare, and would carry out such measures without the intervention of Government. This will not always hold. Certainly, were the collee tion of statistics left to private enterprise, few would be collected. An enthusiastic individual might be found here and there hunting data concerning his particular hobby; there might be enthusiasts upon all questions of public importance, but their efforts would be desui tory, would lack combination, and the results, as far as the public is concerned, would be almost nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Life and Adventures of A No 1 America s Most Celebrated Tramp Classic Reprint written by Leon Ray Livingston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Adventures of a-No; 1, America's Most Celebrated Tramp I might mention that many pages of this book have been written while the author was in transit from place to place, in jolting, rattling box-cars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Tramp in America written by Tim Cresswell and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Good Company written by Douglas Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Maroon Tales written by Will J. Cuppy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Maroon Tales: University of Chicago Stories When Phil had paid his tuition, he felt that at last he was a part of the University. And he liked the feeling. He liked the great, gray, English Gothic buildings, with their steep, red roofs and their plain, strong outlines, and he liked what he saw through the windows. Most of all, he liked the looks of the fellows all about him. He liked everything and everybody on the campus, with the single exception of Freddy Ball, whom he detested. As Freddy was his roommate, he could not ignore the obtrusive fact that he existed. A singularly painful dispensation of Provi dence had condemned Phil and Freddy to unpleasant companionship. It was their mis fortune to be cousins, and both were heartily ashamed of it. Their mothers, the most loving of sisters, would have been terribly shocked had they known of the unnatural animosity harbored by their sons. For that reason alone the boys had refrained from damaging each other's faces, and always exchanged Christmas and birthday gifts, accompanied by excessive written expressions of regard, which were meant to be withering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Down the Road With a Tramp Writer Classic Reprint written by Livingston Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Down the Road With a Tramp Writer His hat is soft, but his eye is hard. And his handy gun, His dandy gun! His aim is death to the thousandth yard, With that handy gun, That dandy gun. His stride is slow, but his hand's a flash, With that handy gun, That dandy gun! That tiger move means a bullet's crash From his handy gun, His dandy gun! He's up on trails but down on crooks, With his handy gun, His dandy gun! He reads the law from calf-bound books With his handy gun, His dandy gun! The plain he roams, but he's tots at home, And his handy gun, His dandy gun! His wife, and they know of weeks alone, For that handy gun, That dandy gun. They'll front him one day with slug from back, For that handy gun, That dandy gun His fate 's On duty and in his track, With his handy gun, His dandy gun! The crows will pick at his corpse so white. But his handy gun, His dandy gun! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book American Masculinities A Historical Encyclopedia written by Bret Carroll and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a highly recommended purchase for undergraduate, medium-sized, and large public libraries wishing to provide a substantial introduction to the field of men′s studies." --Reference & User Services Quarterly "Pleasing layout and good cross-references make Carroll′s compendium a welcome addition to collections serving readers of all ages. Highly recommended." --CHOICE "An excellent index, well-chosen photographs and illustrations, and an extensive bibliography add further value. American Masculinities is well worth what would otherise be too hefty a price for many libraries because no other encyclopedia comes close to covering this growing field so well." --American Reference Books Annual American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia is a first-of-its-kind reference, detailing developments in the growing field of men′s studies. This up-to-date analytical review serves as a marker of how the field has evolved over the last decade, especially since the 1993 publication of Anthony Rotundo′s American Manhood. This seminal book opened new vistas for exploration and research into American History, society, and culture. Weaving the fabric of American history, American Masculinities illustrates how American political leaders have often used the rhetoric of manliness to underscore the presumed moral righteousness and ostensibly protective purposes of their policies. Seeing U.S. history in terms of gender archetypes, readers will gain a richer and deeper understanding of America′s democratic political system, domestic and foreign policies, and capitalist economic system, as well as the "private" sphere of the home and domestic life. The contributors to American Masculinities share the assumption that men′s lives have been grounded fundamentally in gender, that is, in their awareness of themselves as males. Their approach goes beyond scholarship which traditionally looks at men (and women) in terms of what they do and how they have influenced a given field or era. Rather, this important work delves into the psychological core of manhood which is shaped not only by biology, but also by history, society, and culture. Encapsulating the current state of scholarly interpretation within the field of Men′s Studies, American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia is designed to help students and scholars advance their studies, develop new questions for research, and stimulate new ways of exploring the history of American life. Key Features - Reader′s Guide facilitates browsing by topic and easy access to information - Extensive name, place, and concept index gives users an additional means of locating topics of interest - More than 250 entries, each with suggestions for further reading - Cross references direct users to related information - Comprehensive bibliography includes a list of sources organized by categories in the field Topics Covered - Arts, Literature, and Popular Culture - Body, Health, and Sexuality - Class, Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Identities - Concepts and Theories - Family and Fatherhood - General History - Icons and Symbols - Leisure and Work - Movements and Organizations - People - Political and Social Issues About the Editor Bret E. Carroll is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1991. He is author of The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America (1997), Spiritualism in Antebellum America (1997), and several articles on nineteenth-century masculinity.

Download or read book You Can t Win written by Jack Black and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much of this book is about loneliness. Yet its pages are bracingly companionable. It is one of the friendliest books ever written. It is a superb piece of autobiography, testimony that cannot be impeached. While it is a statement of an American tragedy, it has laughter, brevity, style; as a book to pass the time away with, it is in a class with the best fiction." — Carl Sandburg, New York World "Nothing half as rewarding has come down the highway of books about thieves, tramps, murderers, bootleggers and crooks in years " — New Republic "I believe Jack Black has written a remarkable book; it is vivid and picturesque; it is not fiction; it is a book that was needed and it should be widely read." — Clarence Darrow, New York Herald Tribune A major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers, this lost classic was written by Jack Black, a drifter and small-time criminal. Born in 1872, Black hit the road at the age of 16 and spent most of his life as a vagabond. In this plainspoken but colorful memoir, he recaptures a hobo underworld of the early twentieth century, a time when it was possible to pass anonymously from town to town. Black's firsthand accounts of hopping trains, burglaries, prison, and drug addiction offer a compelling portrait of life outside the law and honor among thieves.

Download or read book The Sentimental Touch The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism written by Aaron Ritzenberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sentimental Touch' explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture.

Download or read book Charlie Chaplin s Little Tramp in America 1947 77 written by Lisa Stein Haven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A Tramp Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details Mark Twain's journey through central and southern Europe, including Germany, the Alps, and Italy.

Download or read book A Chance Meeting written by Rachel Cohen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They met in ordinary ways,” writes Rachel Cohen in her introduction, “a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend’s casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near the drinks. . . . They talked to each other for a few hours or for forty years, and later it seemed to them impossible that they could have missed each other.” Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, Henry James, as a boy, goes with his father to have a daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady and is captured in a moment of self-consciousness about being American. Brady returns to photograph Walt Whitman and, later, at City Point in the midst of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant. Meanwhile, Henry James begins a lasting friendship with William Dean Howells, and also meets Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather. Mark Twain publishes Grant’s memoirs; W.E.B. Du Bois and his professor William James visit the young Helen Keller; and Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz argue about photography. Later, Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein, who was also a student of William James’s, attend a performance of The Rite of Spring; Hart Crane goes out on the town with Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston write a play together; Elizabeth Bishop takes Marianne Moore, who was photographed by both Van Vechten and Richard Avedon, to the circus; Avedon and James Baldwin collaborate on a book; John Cage and Marcel Duchamp play chess; and Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell march on the Pentagon in the anti–Vietnam War demonstration of 1967. The accumulation of these pairings draws the reader into the mysterious process through which creativity has been sparked and passed on among iconoclastic American writers and artists. Ultimately, Rachel Cohen reveals a long chain of friendship, rebellion, and influence stretching from the moment just before the Civil War through a century that had a profound effect on our own time. Drawing on a decade of research, A Chance Meeting makes its own illuminating contribution to the tradition of which Cohen writes.

Download or read book Disney Movies Little Golden Book Bundle 35 Copy Set written by Random House Children's Books and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 35 of the most beloved Disney Little Golden Books--featuring old classics and new favorites! Create a whole personal library for a child with this terrific assortment of 35 Disney Little Golden Books retelling everyone's favorite movies from Disney and Disney/Pixar, including old classics and newer releases. The books in this bundle are 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Brave, Cars, Cars 2, Cinderella, Dumbo, Finding Nemo, The Fox and the Hound, Frozen, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, The Little Mermaid, Monsters, Inc., Monsters University, Mulan, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Planes, Planes: Fire and Rescue, Princess and the Frog, Ratatouille, Scamp, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Tangled, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Up, Wall-E, and Wreck-it Ralph. Children ages 2 to 5 will love reading these beloved stories again and again. Each beautifully-illustrated Little Golden Book retells the movie. Makes a terrific baby shower gift or birthday present for a young child or Disney Little Golden Book collector of any age!

Download or read book Culture and Service 1904 written by Calvin Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Culture and Service, 1904: An Address Delivered at the Sixtieth Annual Commencement of the University of Michigan It was my task on that occasion to demolish Taine's philosophy of art, and to do it in six minutes. I pleaded hard for ten, but the inexorable reply was: "No; boil it down. The world will never miss what you leave out!" What I have to say this morning will relate to the ethics of work, - a subject of immense and universal interest, seeing that work is the great law of life for us all. You who leave the University to-day as graduates, are presumably looking forward to a life of labor. You do not expect to be idlers. The vast majority, no doubt, will find themselves face to face with that same interesting dilemma that has confronted the human species since the days of our arboreal ancestry, - the dilemma, work or starve. And you will work. There may be some who are conscious of a special talent for leisure, and who would welcome a chance to exercise the gift rather frequently. Still, even they do not seriously envy our so-called leisure class who live to amuse themselves; for the victims of perennial leisure, whether they wear the clothes of a gentleman, or of a tramp, form one of the most unfortunate elements of the entire population. I think it safe to assume, moreover, that the great majority of you not only expect to work, as a matter of course, but are fairly cheerful over the prospect. You may not feel exactly the eagerness of the hero rejoicing to run a race, but you are not worrying. You are already accustomed to labor in one form and another; and while you may not always have found it exhilarating, it has been in the main quite tolerable. You have no misgivings as to your ability to make friends with what appears to be the natural order of the world, and all you ask is a fair chance to show what you are good for. And all that is well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.