Home away from home: the forgotten history of orphanages
Richard B. McKenzie, editor
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, 2009
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- Table of 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.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-319) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- HV978 .H66 2009
- ISBNs:
- 9781594032455 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1594032459 (hardcover, alk. paper) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009018131
- OCLC Numbers:
- 320435531