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Autore |
Lafferty Renée N |
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Titolo |
The guardianship of best interests [[electronic resource] ] : institutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 / / Renée N. Lafferty |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-90156-0 |
0-7735-8794-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Collana |
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McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion ; ; 26 |
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; 60 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poor children - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 19th century |
Poor children - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 20th century |
Urban poor - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 19th century |
Urban poor - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 20th century |
Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"We Need No Reform": The Organization of Local Services and Administrative Innovation, c. 1850-1924 -- Race Uplift, Racism, and the Childhood Ideal: Founding and Funding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children -- The Unremitting Exercise of Watchfulness: Institutional Environments, Routines, and Practices -- "Out of Mutual Respect Will Come Mutual Responsibility": Coordinating Services and Promoting Interagency Cooperation after World War One -- Managing "High Standards of Professional Ethics": Institutionalization, Gwendolen Lantz, and the Emergence of the "Modern" Children's Home, c. 1940-1952 -- From Protection to Treatment: Group Care and the Transformation of the Institution after World War Two -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia. |
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