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Civic Charity in a Golden Age: ORPHAN CARE IN EARLY MODERN AMSTERDAM [Hardcover]

Anne McCants (Author)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (September 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252023331
ISBN-13: 978-0252023330
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,223,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This is a study of an orphanage. Read the first page

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oud archief, burgher orphans, incoming orphans, crude deathrates, milled quantities, system estimating procedure, orphanage diet, appointment cohort, orphanage board, demand equation system, orphan population, orphanage population, total food budget, orphan residents, incoming children, municipal orphanage, gray peas, wheat purchases, regent board, ooo guilders, regent class, female regents, last cohort, charitable behavior, achttiende eeuw

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East India Company, East Indies, Noordse Bosch, Parameter Standard Estimate Error, United Provinces, House of Orange, Orphan Chamber, Pierre Baille, Amsterdam Corn Exchange, Simon Schama, West India Company, William Temple, Abraham Alewijn, Bought Milled Wheat, Model Life Table-West

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This book cites 46 books:

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama on 6 pages
The Nonprofit Economy by Burton Weisbrod in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Making of the Modern Family by Edward Shorter on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Down Poorhouse Lane by J. Cole in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Abandoned Children (Suny Series in Modern European Social History): Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel G. Fuchs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Working in the Vineyard of the Lord: Jesuit Confraternities in Early Modern Italy by Lance Lazar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) by Katherine A. Lynch on page 106, and Back Matter
Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774–1871 by Silvia Marina Arrom in Back Matter
Reformation Christianity: A People's History of Christianity by Peter Matheson on page 142
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age by Maarten Prak in Back Matter

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