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A Home of Another Kind : One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare
by Kenneth J. Cmiel

Hardcover
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Published by Univ of Chicago Press
Publication date: November 1, 1995

A Survey of Adoption in Great Britain
by Eleanor Grey

Unknown Binding, 166 pages
Published by H.M.S.O.

Abandoned Children : Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth Century France
by Rachel Ginnis Fuchs

Hardcover
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Published by State Univ of New York Pr
Publication date: February 1984

Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-Mesu- Lissur (Mesopotamian Civilizations, Vol 3)
by Elizabeth C. Stone, David I. Owen

Hardcover
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Published by Eisenbrauns
Publication date: August 1991

Adoption in the Two Jurisdictions of Ireland : A Comparative Study
by Kerry O'Halloran

Hardcover
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Published by Avebury
Publication date: October 1994

Adoption in Worldwide Perspective : A Review of Programs, Policies, and Legislation in 14 Countries
by R. A. C. Hoksbergen (Editor)

Paperback
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Published by Swets & Zeitlinger
Publication date: September 1986

Adoptions and Name Changes, Minnesota Territory and State, 1855- 1881
by Stina B. Green

Paperback
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Published by Park Genealogical Books
Publication date: September 1994

And Now My Soul Is Hardened : Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930
by Alan M. Ball

Hardcover
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Published by Univ of California Pr
Publication date: February 1994

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Babies for Sale : The Tennessee Children's Home Adoption Scandal
by Linda Tollett Austin

Hardcover
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Published by Praeger Pub Text
Publication date: July 1993

Blood Ties and Fictive Ties : Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France
by Kristin Elizabeth Gager

Hardcover, 197 pages
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Published by Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date: February 1,1996

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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg (Studies in German Histories)
by Thomas Max Safley

Hardcover
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Published by Humanities Pr
Publication date: December 1996

Children and Hope : A History of the Children's Home Society of Florida
by Lawrence Mahoney

Hardcover
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Published by Pickering Pr
Publication date: January 1988

Christ's Hospital of London, 1552-1598 : 'a Passing Deed of Pity'
by Carol Kazmierczak Manzione

Hardcover
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Published by Susquehanna Univ Press
Publication date: May 1995

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Dark Side of Adoption
by Marsha (aka Mirah) Riben

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Published by Marsha Riben
Publication date: June 1988

Deeds of Love : A History of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia-America's First Jewish Orphanage
by Jules Doneson

Hardcover
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Published by Vantage Press
Publication date: August 1996

Discarding the Asylum : From Child Rescue to the Welfare State in English- Canada (1800-1950)
by Patricia T. Rooke

Paperback
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Published by Univ Press of America
Publication date: September 1983

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Franklin County Ohio Adoptions, 1852-1901
by W. Louis Phillips

Paperback
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Published by Heritage Books
Publication date: February 1988

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Getting an Heir : Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China
by Ann Beth Waltner

Hardcover
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Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publication date: February 1991

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History and Records of the Charleston Orphan House, 1790-1860
by Susan L. King

Hardcover
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Published by Southern Historical Pr
Publication date: June 1984

House of Many Rooms, The
by Sue Craft Howell, Pinkie Craft Ware

Hardcover
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Published by Sue Craft Howell & Pinkie
Publication date: August 1991

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Inside Looking Out : The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924
by Gary Edward Polster

Hardcover
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Published by Kent State Univ Pr
Publication date: July 1990

Intercountry Adoption : A Multinational Perspective
by Howard Altstein, Rita J. Simon (Editor)

Hardcover
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Published by Praeger Pub Text
Publication date: February 1991

Intercountry Adoption : A Multinational Perspective
by Howard Altstein, Rita J. Simon (Editor)

Hardcover
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Published by Praeger Pub Text
Publication date: February 1991

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Kinship With Strangers : Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture
by Judith S. Modell

Hardcover
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Published by Univ of California Press
Publication date: May 1994

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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee; Spirit of the Lakota
by Renee Sansom Flood

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Hardcover, 384 pages
Published by Scribner
Publication date: June 1, 1995

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Mother Donit Fore the Best : Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum
by Judith A. Dulberger

1 Ed
Hardcover
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Published by Syracuse Univ Press
Publication date: April 1996

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Orphanages Reconsidered : Child Care Institutions in Progressive Era Baltimore
by Nurith Zmora

Hardcover
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Published by Temple Univ Pr
Publication date: June 1994

Orphaned Children : A Bibliography
by Larry Benson

Paperback
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Published by Vance Bibliographies
Publication date: January 1991

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Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Spain : The Women and Children of the Inclusa
by Joan M. Sherwood

Hardcover
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Published by Univ of Toronto Press
Publication date: January 1989

Pricing the Priceless Child : The Changing Social Value of Children
by Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

Reprint Edition 
Paperback, 277 pages
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Published by Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date: June 1,1994

Susan Cunningham Lasky: a fascinating look at the changing sociological value, both "market value" and emotional value, of children over a period of 50+ years, from approximately 1870 through 1930 and beyond. If you only read one book in this category, this is the one to read.

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Relative Origins : Famous Foster and Adopted People
by Maria Dever, Aileen Dever

Paperback
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Published by Natl Book Co
Publication date: July 1992

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Social Change, Social Work and the Adoption of Children
by Alan Teague

Hardcover
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Published by Avebury
Publication date: March 1990

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The Dawn of Philanthropy : Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam
by Anne E. C. McCants

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Published by Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt)
Publication date: September 1997

The Luckiest Orphans : A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York
by Hyman Bogen

Hardcover, 283 pages
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Published by Univ of Illinois Press
Publication date: August 1,1992

The Kindness of Strangers : The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
by John Boswell

Reprint Edition 
Paperback, 488 pages
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Published by Vintage Books
Publication date: February 1,1990

The Orphan Trains : Placing Out in America
by Marilyn Irvin Holt

Reprint Edition 
Paperback
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Published by Univ of Nebraska Press
Publication date: February 1,1994

The Texas Orphans : A Story of the Orphan Train Children
by Rita Kerr

Hardcover
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Published by Eakin Pubns
Publication date: October 1994

Reissue Edition 
Paperback
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Published by Routledge
Publication date: March 1,1994

We Are a Part of History : The Story of the Orphan Trains
by Michael Patrick, Evelyn Sheets, Evelyn Trickel

Reprint Edition 
Hardcover
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Published by Michael Patrick
Publication date: March 1995

Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse : The World of an Indian Orphanage
by Sharon Skolnick, Manny Skolnick

Hardcover
Published by Univ of Nebraska Press
Publication date: January 1998

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