The quiet revolutionaries
Subtitle: how the Grey Nuns changed paradigms of social welfare in Lewiston, Maine
By: Susan P. Hudson.
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture; American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Soeurs grises -- Maine -- Lewiston -- History -- 19th century.; Nuns -- Maine -- Lewiston -- History -- 19th century.; Lewiston (Me.) -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Everyone was poor"; title: An autumn arrival; title: The transformation of 19th century Maine; title: Religious and ethnic struggles; title: Yankee benevolence; title: First foundations; title: Portrait of a patient; title: The nuns and the Yankees; title: Beyond health care; title: Appendix A: Lewiston and other population statistics; title: Appendix B: statistics of Hospital General Sainte-Marie; title: Appendix C: statistics of Central Maine General Hospital; title: Appendix D: Lewiston's Grey Nuns.