The Orphan Trains

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Holt, Marilyn Irvin 저자(글)

Bison Books · 1994년 02월 01일

책 소개

Marilyn Irvin Holt, former director of publications at the Kansas State Historical Society; is a freelance editor, writer, and researcher and teaches historical editing at the University of Kansas.
"As a portrait of the time's charitable networks, The Orphan Trains succeeds. . . . [Holt's] work brings to light a meaningful concept: the idea that charity; then and now, is sometimes tinged with greed, indifference, hostility, self-promotion and is an institution that can serve the giver more than the receiver."-David James Rose, Washington Times
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."- Library Journal
"Soon there will be no memories of the 'little companies,' as they were called, of children setting out with an adult leader for a new life. This little book is kind of a preservation movement, and a contribution to our understanding of how the West was won."-David Shribman, Wall Street Journal
These presentations, based on Dorothea Petrie's meeting with a man who had been placedout in Dysart, Iowa, in 1894, gave to a large general audience one story of the placing-out system.

작가정보

저자(글) Holt, Marilyn Irvin

목차

• Acknowledgments	p. ix
  Introduction	p. 1
  Ideals, Demands, and Motivations	p. 9
  A Plan for "Little Wanderers"	p. 41
  Others "Think of a Home Over There"	p. 80
  A Plan Embattled	p. 118
  The Close of an Era	p. 156
  Epilogue	p. 188
  Notes	p. 195
  Bibliographical Essay	p. 225
  Index	p. 237
  Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9780803272651 ( 0803272650 )
발행(출시)일자	1994년 02월 01일
쪽수	264쪽
크기	205 * 211 * 14 mm / 331 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어