Homeless Lives in American Cities: Interrogating Myth and Locating Community

By Philip Webb

Book Overview

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 work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349476897
• ISBN13: 9781349476893
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"