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Title:

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

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Encounter Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xxi, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Orphanages--United States--History.
Orphanages--History.

Other Authors:

McKenzie, Richard B.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1594032459 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594032455 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320435531

LCCN:

2009018131

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)