The World displayed, or, A curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations : in which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged, every relation is made concise and plain
The World displayed, or, A curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations : in which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged, every relation is made concise and plain...
Contents: Part One: Begging in context: Begging and the contradictions of citizenship ~ Hartley Dean and Keir Gale; Why begging offends: historical perspectives and continuities ~ Angus Erskine and Ian McIntosh; Begging: the global context and international comparisons ~ Bill Jordan; Excluded youth and the growth of begging ~ Bob Coles and Gary Craig; Part Two: Researching begging: Easy pickings or hard profession? Begging as an economic activity ~ Hartley Dean and Margaret Melrose; Begging in time and space: 'shadow work' ...
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Contents: Part One: Begging in context: Begging and the contradictions of citizenship ~ Hartley Dean and Keir Gale; Why begging offends: historical perspectives and continuities ~ Angus Erskine and Ian McIntosh; Begging: the global context and international comparisons ~ Bill Jordan; Excluded youth and the growth of begging ~ Bob Coles and Gary Craig; Part Two: Researching begging: Easy pickings or hard profession? Begging as an economic activity ~ Hartley Dean and Margaret Melrose; Begging in time and space: 'shadow work' and the rural context ~ Julia Wardhaugh and Jane Jones; The face that begs: street begging scenes and selves' identity work ~ Andrew Travers; Word from the street: the perils and pains of researching begging ~ ~ Margaret Melrose; Part Three: Perceptions and control of begging: Public attitudes to begging: theory in search of data ~ Michael Adler; "I feel rotten. I do, I feel rotten": exploring the begging encounter ~ Ian McIntosh and Angus Erskine; Policing compassion: 'diverted giving' on the Winchester High Street ~ Joe Hermer; Tolerance or intolerance? The policing of begging in the urban context ~ Roger Hopkins Burke.
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Add this copy of The World Displayed Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages to cart. $32.01, poor condition, Sold by Victoria Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bere Alston, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1767 by J Newbery.
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Poor. Board detached. spine cracked. foxing and marking.6 plates. Africa & Middle East 16mo. damp marking to end papers. Signature of Julian S Huxley on loose endpaper.
Add this copy of The World Displayed Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages to cart. $44.62, poor condition, Sold by Victoria Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bere Alston, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1773 by J Newbery.
Add this copy of The World Displayed Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages to cart. $148.25, fair condition, Sold by Victoria Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bere Alston, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1759 by J. Newbery.
Add this copy of The World Displayed Or; a Curious Collection of Voyages to cart. $72.00, fair condition, Sold by Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fleetville, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1768 by J. Newberry (1760) & Newberry & Carnin.
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Fair. Two volumes bound as one in contemporary quarter olive leather (spine) and paste-down paper covered boards, 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches, 191 pp + 240 pp, three fold-out plates in volume 13, one fold-out and three single leaf plates in volume 14, NO MAP(S). Hardcover, fair to good. Boards scuffed, rubbed and chipped, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, ½ inch chip off foot of spine, most of spine label chipped off. Internally, front hinge cracked, previous owner's signature, age tanned and foxed, one stub, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp, unmarked. Travels through Egypt, Palmyra, Aleppo, (Syria and Lebanon) Muscovy, Russia, Persia.
