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Habits of compassion : Irish Catholic nuns and the origins of New York's welfare system, 1830-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzgerald, Maureen, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Series:Women in American history.
Subjects:
Public welfare > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History.
Public welfare > New York (State) > New York > History.
Nuns > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Irish American Catholics > New York (State) > New York > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Republican mothers and brides of Christ
  • Good girls, bad girls, and the Great Hunger, 1845-70
  • Placing-out and Irish-Catholic cultural reproduction, 1848-64
  • Saving children from the child-savers, 1864-94
  • "The family" and "the institution" : the roads to the White House, 1890-1909
  • The immaculate conception of the welfare state, 1895-1920.