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Author:

Fitzgerald, Maureen, 1959-

Title:

Habits of compassion : Irish Catholic nuns and the origins of New York's welfare system, 1830-1920 / Maureen Fitzgerald.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Public welfare--History.--Catholic Church--History.
Public welfare--New York--New York--History.
Nuns--New York--New York--History--19th century.
Irish-American Catholics--New York--New York--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-292) and index.

Contents:

Republican mothers and brides of Christ -- Good girls, bad girls, and the Great Hunger, 1845-70 -- Placing-out and Irish-Catholic cultural reproduction, 1848-64 -- Saving children from the child-savers, 1864-94 -- "The family" and "the institution" : the roads to the White House, 1890-1909 -- The immaculate conception of the welfare state, 1895-1920.

Series:

Women in American history.

ISBN:

9780252072826
0252072820 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252030345
0252030346 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60455052

LCCN:

2005013684

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)