The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gamber, Wendy, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Boardinghouses > United States > History > 19th century.
Lodging-houses > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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".

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