Abandoned foundlings in nineteenth-century New York City
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
New York Univ. Press
c 2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-310) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 319 S. ill 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780814757253 978-0-8147-5725-3 0814757251 0-8147-5725-1 9780814757260 978-0-8147-5726-0 081475726X 0-8147-5726-X |