Making of a beggar, Buckley, Nick

Автор: Gurina-Rodriguez, Zhenya
Название: Begging for Their Daily Bread
ISBN: 1978710623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978710627
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas and his works, God`s Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through human moral activity.

Автор: Harlan W. Gilmore
Название: The Beggar
ISBN: 1469644509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469644509
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In all countries at all times the beggar has been a familiar figure--sometimes reverenced, sometimes despised, protected yet outlawed--but usually managing somehow to keep body and soul together. Gilmore begins his study of the beggar of modern times by outlining concisely the beggar's family tree. His discussion encompasses the whole life history of the various sorts of beggars-from what propels men toward beggardom through the many aspects of the beggar life.

Originally published in 1940.

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Автор: Tully Jim
Название: Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography
ISBN: 1774640899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781774640890
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After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police and reach Canada.

A bestseller in 1924, in this vivid piece of outlaw history Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting the cops. The author chose life on the road over a deadening job, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and living one meal to the next.

Автор: Hanchao Lu
Название: Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
ISBN: 080475148X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804751483
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various factors that contribute to almsgiving, the role of gender in begging, and street people and Communist politics. Panoramically, the reader will see that the culture and institution of Chinese mendicancy, which had its origins in earlier centuries, remained remarkably consistent through time and space and that there were perennial and lively interactions between the world of beggars and mainstream society.