Mothers of Misery
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Appanage
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Baby farming
Birth control
Breast milk
Breastfeeding
Cantonist
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Centuries of Childhood
Child abandonment
Child abuse
Child care
Child murder
Child neglect
Childbirth
Communal land
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Death of Baby P
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Desertion
Disenchantment
Dowry
Economics
Emancipation reform of 1861
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Extended family
Family income
Foster care
Fosterage
Foundling hospital
Grandparent
Hospitalism
Household
Infant
Infant mortality
Infanticide
Infertility
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Language_English
Legitimacy (family law)
Miscarriage
Mortality rate
New class
Old Believers
Orphanage
Overcrowding
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Peasant
Perinatal mortality
Period of Adjustment
Police state
Poor relief
Premarital sex
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Prostitution
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Raznochintsy
Reclaiming (Neopaganism)
Remarriage
Save the Children
Serfdom
Sex ratio
Single parent
Slavery in Russia
Smallpox vaccine
softlaunch
Stipend
Subsidy
Superiority (short story)
Syphilis
The Peasants
Thomas Coram
Thomas Robert Malthus
Warfare
Welfare
Wet nurse
Workhouse
Zemstvo
Product details
- ISBN 9780691630298
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one time it supervised over 40,000 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 one-hundred-fifty-year 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 study."--Reginald E. Zelnik, American Historical Review Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print 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.
