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Author: John E. Murray
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:
Width: 1.60cm
, Height: 0.20cm
, Length: 2.40cm
Weight: 0.539kg
ISBN: 9780226924090
ISBN 10: 0226924092
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 03 January 2013
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
John E. Murray is an accomplished economic historian who here turns his hand to social history. The Charleston Orphan House brims with new insights into family life, labor markets, health conditions, and attitudes about class and race in antebellum South Carolina. Murray's most distinctive contribution is access to the voices of the poor urban white population, who are allowed to speak for themselves in this superb new book.<br>--Gavin Wright, Stanford University
John E. Murray is an accomplished economic historian who here turns his hand to social history. The Charleston Orphan House brims with new insights into family life, labor markets, health conditions, and attitudes about class and race in antebellum South Carolina. Murray's most distinctive contribution is access to the voices of the poor urban white population, who are allowed to speak for themselves in this superb new book. <br>--Gavin Wright, Stanford University
This is an exemplary history from the bottom up. Focusing on the lives of poor families allows John E. Murray to illuminate, as never before, who placed children in the Charleston Orphan House and why.Murray documents the day-to-day activities of the children themselves and their lives after they left the institution. The Charleston Orphan House is the best and most thorough treatment in existence today of a pre Civil War orphanage. --E. Wayne Carp, Pacific Lutheran University, author of Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption
This is an exemplary history from the bottom up. Focusing on the lives of poor families allows John E. Murray to illuminate, as never before, who placed children in the Charleston Orphan House and why. Murray documents the day-to-day activities of the children themselves and their lives after they left the institution. The Charleston Orphan House is the best and most thorough treatment in existence today of a pre-Civil War orphanage. --E. Wayne Carp, Pacific Lutheran University, author of Family Matters: Secrecy an
Author Information
John E. Murray is the J. R. Hyde III Professor of Political Economy at Rhodes College and the author of Origins of American Health Insurance.
