Home away from home
Subtitle: the forgotten history of orphanages
By: Richard B. McKenzie, editor.
Contributors: McKenzie, Richard B.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594032455
Subjects: Orphanages -- United States -- History; Orphanages -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Orphanages in history and the modern child welfare setting : an overview / Duncan Lindsey and Paul H. Stuart; title: The early history of orphanages : from Constantinople to Venice / Timothy Miller; title: Christian charity and the politics of orphan care in the Dutch Republic / Anne E. C. McCants; title: Mooseheart : "the child city" / David T. Beito; title: A home of a different kind : an orphanage in the middle of Chicago's elite / Kenneth Cmiel with Anne Duggan; title: Fates of orphans : poor children in antebellum Charleston / John E. Murray; title: The transformation of catholic orphanages : Cleveland, 1851-1996 / Marian Morton; title: Baltimore's nineteenth-century orphanages / Nurith Zmora; title: The orphan trains as an alternative to orphanages / Marilyn Irvin Holt; title: Orphanages as a national institution : history and its lessons / Timothy A. Hacsi.