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Home away from home : the forgotten history of orphanages / Richard B. McKenzie, editor.
LIBRA HV978 .H66 2009
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Van Pelt Library HV978 .H66 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphanages--United States--History.
- Orphanages.
- Orphanages--History.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, 2009.
- Contents:
- Orphanages in history and the modern child welfare setting : an overview / Duncan Lindsey and Paul H. Stuart
- The early history of orphanages : from Constantinople to Venice / Timothy S. Miller
- Christian charity and the politics of orphan care in the Dutch Republic / Anne E. C. McCants
- Mooseheart : "the child city" / David T. Beito
- A home of another kind : an orphanage in the midst of Chicago's elite / Kenneth Cmiel, with Anne Duggan
- Fates of orphans : poor children in antebellum Charleston / John E. Murray
- The transformation of Catholic orphanages : Cleveland, 1851-1996 / Marian Morton
- Baltimore's nineteenth-century orphanages / Nurith Zmora
- The orphan trains as an alternative to orphanages / Marilyn Irvin Holt
- Orphanages as a national institution: history and its lessons / Timothy A. Hacsi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594032455
- 1594032459
- OCLC:
- 320435531
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