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Abandoned : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City
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Abandoned : foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City / Julie Miller.
ISBN
9780814757253 (cl : alk. paper)
0814757251 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814757260 (pb : alk. paper)
081475726X (pb : alk. paper)
Published
New York : New York University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index.
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.
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