Embodied History The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia Simon
P. Newman Winner of the 2004 American Studies Network Book Prize
"Newman has ably probed the limited representations of the bodies
of the poor in the public records--glimpses of lives otherwise
unrecorded--and has given us a useful and readable account of the
ways in which the poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary
power of the modern state, even as some poorer individuals were
able in limited ways to resist that power."--"William and Mary
Quarterly" "A well-researched, well-written, and compelling study
of citizens who have, until now, been overlooked by historians. . .
. Newman vividly recreates the experiences of the impoverished men
and women who found themselves in the city's almshouse, prisons, or
hospitals. He also uses primary sources to explore the lives of the
African Americans (many of them runaways) and sailors who, more or
less, made the city their home. The work concludes with an
exploration of the role death played in the lives of the urban
poor. . . . Provocative and intellectually satisfying."--"Choice"
"Nobody can give the long-dead poor a voice, but Newman has come
very close indeed."--"Journal of the Early Republic" "Brilliantly
conceived and executed. This fascinating, truly significant book is
required reading for anyone interested in the early Republic and is
a natural for use in both graduate and undergraduate
courses."--"Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"
""Embodied History"'s interpretations are bold and imaginative.
They ought to inspire additional investigations of the poor, their
coping strategies in the lives in which they found themselves, and
their own perspectives on those lives."--"International Journal of
Maritime History" Offering 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. Simon
P. Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies,
University of Glasgow, and author of "Parades and the Politics of
the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic," also
available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Early American
Studies 2003 224 pages 6 x 9 14 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3731-3 Cloth
$65.00s 42.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-1848-0 Paper $24.95s 16.50 ISBN
978-0-8122-0292-2 Ebook $24.95s 16.50 World Rights American History
Short copy: "A useful and readable account of the ways in which the
poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary power of the
modern state."--"William and Mary Quarterly"
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