Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-319) and index.
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.
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