Founding Friends
Patricia D'Antonio
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Description for Founding Friends
Hardback. 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. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611460353
SKU
V9781611460353
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99-15
About Patricia D'Antonio
Patricia D'Antonio is associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.
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