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The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America /
"In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of "home":...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Houses and homes
- Away from home
- Keeping house
- "The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living"
- Boarders' beefs
- Nests of crime and dens of vice
- "Will they board, or keep house?"
- Charity begins at home
- Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house."