Founding Friends: Families, Staff, And Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-century Philadelphia
Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source—the daily diaries that the asylum’s lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850—this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.
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Founding Friends: Families, Staff, And Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-century Philadelphia
Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source—the daily diaries that the asylum’s lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850—this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611460353 |
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| Publisher: | University Press Copublishing Division |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2006 |
| Series: | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 253 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d) |
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