Homelessness: a documentary and reference guide

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This book presents an investigation of homelessness in the United States, a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago.

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Title Statements

Full title :Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide / Neil Larry Shumsky.

Summary

This book presents an investigation of homelessness in the United States, a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Greenwood
Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxix, 389 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780313377013, 0313377014, 1280119322, 9781280119323
oclc:ocn780442959
LC Classification:HV4504
Dewey Decimal:362.5/920973

pt. 1. Words and numbers -- pt. 2. Hoboes, tramps, and bums, 1790-1930 -- pt. 3. Migrants and transients, 1930-1960 -- pt. 4. Street people, bag ladies, and homeless people.

Subjects

History Homelessness Homelessness -- History. -- United Stat… Homelessness -- Sources. -- History -- … Itinérance -- Histoire. -- États-Unis Itinérance -- Sources. -- Histoire -- É… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness Sources United States