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Abandoned : Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City.
Two interesting items:. The author's article in New York Archives. A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press. In the nineteenth century, foundlings--children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth--were commonplace in European so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 "Children of Accident and Mystery":Foundlings in History and Literature; 2 "New York as a Nursing Mother":Foundlings in the Antebellum City; 3 "The Murder of the Innocents": New York Discovers Its Foundlings; 4 "The Basket at the Door": The Foundling Asylums Open; 5 "Out-Heroding Herod": The Foundlings and the Revolutionary; 6 The End of the Foundling Asylums; 7 Conclusion: The Foundling Disappears--Almost; Notes; Index; About the Author.