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Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / Claudia Nelson.
Van Pelt Library HV875.55 .N449 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Claudia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--United States--History.
- Adoption.
- Orphans--United States--History.
- Orphans.
- Adoption in literature.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- The 1850s and their echoes : Two case studies
- Money talks : The displaced child, 1860-1885
- Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906
- Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906
- Adoption and women, 1907-1918
- Adoption up to date : The rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253342244
- OCLC:
- 50644005
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