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Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1990
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BC2 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white reproduction illustrated black and burgandy paper wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A book that examines the creation and management of Russian foundling care programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The author examines the efforts of these institutions to deal with abandonment and infanticide and act as contact points between educated society and the village as well as artisans and craftspeople. Bibliography, indexed, 330p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Princeton University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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1988. Europe. Princeton University Press. Very good paperback with previous owner's white label on spine 330p.
Published by Princeton University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.08.
Published by Princeton University Press January 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Paperback. Condition: USED Good.
Published by Princeton 1988, 1988
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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ISBN 0-691-00848-5. Trade Paperback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book.
Published by Princeton 1988, 1988
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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ISBN 0-691-00848-5. Trade Paperback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy two.
Published by Brand: Princeton University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Softcover. Condition: new. At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17000 children each year The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside where at any one time it supervised over 40000 children in Moscow province and six adjoining provinces Established by Empress Catherine II in the middle of the eighteenth century the two central foundling homes the other was in St Petersburg were intended to deal humanely with the growing problems of abandonment and infanticide and to serve as social laboratories for educating artisans and craftspeople David Ransel explores the creation and management of these institutions shows how they functioned as a point of contact between educated society and the village and compares them to the European foundling care programs on which they were modeled There were two central foundling homes in Russia one in Moscow one in St Petersburg In this book no significant aspect of their history is left untouched and many issues are described and analyzed in rich detail the book becomes in part a history of rural Russia over a onehundredfiftyyear period or more accurately of the provincial hinterlands of the two capitals The interaction between city and countryside turns out to be much more than a clich in this fascinating studyReginald E Zelnik American Historical ReviewOriginally published in 1988The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Published by Princeton University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xiv 330p large format paperback, illustrations, light traces of use (faint pencil marks), as new Language: English.
Published by PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 1988
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Condition: New. 978-0-691-00848-6. RANSEL, D. L.: MOTHERS OF MISERY. CHILD ABANDONMENT IN RUSSIA. 1988 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 490 gr.
Published by Princeton University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0691008485ISBN 13: 9780691008486
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Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.05.