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UNINA9910463886203321 |
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Autore |
Gamber Wendy <1958-> |
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Titolo |
The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / / Wendy Gamber |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 213 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Lodging-houses - United States - History - 19th century |
Boardinghouses - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
United States Social conditions 19th century |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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