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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50079935 Title: Adoption in America : historical perspectives Author: E Wayne Carp Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0472109995 9780472109999 OCLC:50079935

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Adoption in America : historical perspectives

Author:	E Wayne Carp
Publisher:	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	E Wayne Carp Find more information about:
ISBN:	0472109995 9780472109999
OCLC Number:	50079935
Description:	257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction : a historical overview of American adoption / E. Wayne Carp -- A good home : indenture and adoption in nineteenth-century orphanages / Susan L. Porter -- Buildind a nation, building a family : adoption in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Carol J. Singley -- What's love got to do with it? : "adoption" in Victorian and Edwardian England / George K. Behlmer -- A historical comparison of Catholic and Jewish adoption practices in Chicago, 1833-1933 / Paula F. Pfeffer -- Rescue a child and save the nation : the social construction of adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911 / Julie Berebitsky -- A nation's need for adoption and competing realities : the Washington Children's Home Society, 1895-1915 / Patricia S. Hart -- Adoption agencies and the search for the ideal family, 1918-1965 / Brian Paul Gill -- When in doubt, count : World War II as a watershed in the history of adoption / E. Wayne Carp and Anna Leon-Guerrero -- Adoption stories : autobiographical narrative and the politics of identity / Barbara Melosh.
Responsibility:	edited by E. Wayne Carp.
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