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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463886203321

Autore

Gamber Wendy <1958->

Titolo

The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / / Wendy Gamber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-4214-0259-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 213 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

917.3/0615

Soggetti

Lodging-houses - United States - History - 19th century

Boardinghouses - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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".