The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / / Wendy Gamber
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 213 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 917.3/0615 |
| Soggetto topico: | Lodging-houses - United States - History - 19th century |
| Boardinghouses - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 19th century |
| 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". |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0259-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820042303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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