"homeless"

Alessandro Coricelli alessandro.coricelli at rcn.com
Thu Jan 30 14:33:46 PST 2003


on 1/30/03 5:14 PM, joanna bujes at joanna.bujes at sun.com wrote:


> Interesting, I thought that homeless for "indigent" or "beggar" was a very
> recent invention, but I see that it has been used that way since the late
> eighteenth century. Still, what I really want to dig into is how it became
> the dominant term ...around the early eighties...

you could start from here:

http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/homeless/feb99/0037.html


> Can anyone recommend a google search strategy?... somehow I suspect that
> looking for "Homeless" will get me nowhere.

I'd try with : "History of homelessness" (remember the quotation marks"

ciao, alessandro



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