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UNINA9910456342803321 |
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Autore |
Carp E. Wayne |
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Titolo |
Adoption in America [[electronic resource] ] : Historical Perspectives |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009 |
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1-282-44527-8 |
9786612445279 |
0-472-02463-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Adoptees -- United States -- History |
Adoption -- United States -- History |
Electronic books. -- local |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: A Historical Overview of American Adoption; A Good Home: Indenture and Adoption in Nineteenth-Century Orphanages; Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature; What's Love Got to Do with It?: "Adoption" in Victorian and Edwardian England; A Historical Comparison of Catholic and Jewish Adoption Practices in Chicago, 1833-1933; Rescue a Child and Save the Nation: The Social Construction of Adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911 |
A Nation's Need for Adoption and Competing Realities: The Washington Children's Home Society, 1895-1915Adoption Agencies and the Search for the Ideal Family,1918-1965; When in Doubt, Count: World War II as a Watershed in the History of Adoption; Adoption Stories: Autobiographical Narrative and the Politics of Identity; Contributors; Index |
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