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Author Fitzgerald, Maureen, 1959-

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

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  BX1795.P83 F58 2006    Available  ---
Description x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Women in American history
Women in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-292) and index.
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.
Subject Public welfare -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History.
Public welfare -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
History.
Public welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Public welfare.
New York (State) -- New York.
Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Nuns.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Irish American Catholics -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Irish American Catholics.
ISBN 0252072820 paperback alkaline paper
0252030346 cloth alkaline paper
9780252030345 cloth alkaline paper
9780252072826 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780252030345
9780252072826