Home away from home : the forgotten history of orphanages / Richard B. McKenzie, editor.

Other author McKenzie, Richard B.
Format Book
Edition1st American ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Encounter Books, 2009.
Descriptionxxi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-319) and index.
LCCN 2009018131
ISBN9781594032455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1594032459 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HV978 .H66 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold