Imagined orphans : poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London / by Murdoch, Lydia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…"A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular representations of poor children -- From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic identity for poor children -- The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of poverty -- "That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children -- Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members of empire -- "Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship.…”
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Imagined orphans : poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London / by Murdoch, Lydia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…"A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular representations of poor children -- From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic identity for poor children -- The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of poverty -- "That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children -- Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members of empire -- "Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship.…”
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Benjamin Franklin in London : the British life of America's founding father / by Goodwin, George, 1956-

Benjamin Franklin in London : the British life of America's founding father / by Goodwin, George, 1956-

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