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Author:

Hudson, Susan Pearman

Title:

The quiet revolutionaries : how the Grey Nuns changed the social welfare paradigm of Lewiston, Maine / Susan P. Hudson.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xix, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Soeurs grises--Lewiston--Lewiston--History--19th century.
Nuns--Lewiston--Lewiston--History--19th century.
Lewiston (Me.)--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-180) and index.

Contents:

"Everyone was poor" -- An autumn arrival -- The transformation of nineteenth-century Maine -- Religious and ethnic struggles -- Yankee benevolence -- First foundations -- Portrait of a patient -- The nuns and the Yankees -- Beyond health care -- Appendix A: Lewiston's parish statistics -- Appendix B: Hospital general Sainte-Marie patient statistics -- Appendix C: Central Maine General Hospital patient statistics -- Appendix D: Lewiston's Grey Nuns.

Series:

Studies in American popular history and culture

ISBN:

9780415978347
0415978343

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62741377

LCCN:

2005035748

Locations:

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