TY - JOUR
AU - Fisher, Linford D.
AB - REVIEWS 275 Schweik is also at times a very gifted social historian. She makes her most re- markable contribution in that regard to the neglected history of the urban lumpen proletariat in her discussions of the resistance of disabled beggars and their vari- ous allies among street people (petty criminals, prostitutes, gang members, immi- grant peddlers, organ grinders with monkey in tow, and the ragged poor) as well as ordinary pedestrians to the efforts of the cop on the beat, the street savvy, un- dercover vice squad detective, the middle class do-gooder, and the meddling so- cial worker to apply the ugly laws at street level. The riotous encounters she analyzes, with their mixture of menace, chaos, conflicting cultures, and colorful characters, paint fascinating, Dickensian word pictures that bring to life the illu- sive urban crowd and its antagonists in compelling and analytically pointed ways. University at Buffalo David A. Gerber SECTION 4 NATIVE AMERICANS To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast. By Rachel Wheeler (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiii plus 250 pp. $45.00). This book is a tale of two cities. Or, more precisely, two Indian villages on the outskirts of the British 
TI - To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast. By Rachel Wheeler (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiii plus 250 pp. $45.00)
JF - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh.2010.0021
DA - 2010-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/to-live-upon-hope-mohicans-and-missionaries-in-the-eighteenth-century-k0OrXxdan4
SP - 275
EP - 277
VL - 44
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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