Contents |
Children of accident and mystery : foundlings in history and memory -- New York as a nursing mother : foundlings in the antebellum city -- The murder of the innocents : New York discovers its foundlings -- The basket at the door : the foundling asylums open -- Out-Heroding Herod : the foundlings and the revolutionary -- The end of the foundling asylums -- Conclusion : the foundling disappears--almost. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2007043280 |
ISBN | 9780814757253 (cl : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0814757251 (cl : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780814757260 (pb : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 081475726X (pb : alk. paper) |