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019 _a(OCoLC)1013938849
019 _a(OCoLC)1029827688
019 _a(OCoLC)1032692519
019 _a(OCoLC)1037980843
019 _a(OCoLC)1041994065
019 _a(OCoLC)1046611612
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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812202922
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812202922
035 _a(DE-B1597)449151
035 _a(OCoLC)979684524
040 _aDE-B1597
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082 0 4 _a305.5/69/097481109033
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNewman, Simon P.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEmbodied History :
_bThe Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia /
_cSimon P. Newman.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2003
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.) :
_b14 illus.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aEarly American Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 Almshouse Bodies --
_t2 Villainous Bodies --
_t3 Hospitalized Bodies --
_t4 Runaway Bodies --
_t5 Seafaring Bodies --
_t6 Dead Bodies --
_tAfterword --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aOffering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, hospital, and burial records, Simon P. Newman uses physical details to paint an entirely different portrait of the material circumstances of the poor, examining the ways they became categorized in the emerging social hierarchy, and how they sought to resist such categorization. The Philadelphians examined in Embodied History were members of the lower sort, a social category that emerged in the early modern period from the belief in a society composed of natural orders and ranks. The population of the urban poor grew rapidly after the American Revolution, and middling and elite citizens were frightened by these poor bodies, from the tattooed professional sailor, to the African American runaway with a highly personalized hairstyle and distinctive mannerisms and gestures, to the vigorous and lively Irish prostitute who refused to be cowed by the condemnation of others, to the hardworking laboring family whose weakened and diseased children played and sang in the alleys. In a new republic premised on liberty and equality, the rapidly increasing ranks of unruly bodies threatened to overwhelm traditional notions of deference, hierarchy, and order.Affluent Philadelphians responded by employing runaway advertisements, the almshouse, the prison, and to a lesser degree the hospital to incarcerate, control, and correct poor bodies and transform them into well-dressed, hardworking, deferential members of society. Embodied History is a compelling and accessible exploration of how poverty was etched and how power and discipline were enacted upon the bodies of the poor, as well as how the poor attempted to transcend such discipline through assertions of bodily agency and liberty.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 4 _aBooks of Regional Interest.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
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653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aBooks of Regional Interest.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202922
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202922
856 4 2 _3Cover
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