Damnation Island poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York
"It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781616205768 1616205768 |
