Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York
Book
First edition.
"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"--
Available copies
- 18 of 18 copies available at Westchester Library System. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at The Field Library.
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Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| The Field Library | 362.21 H (Text) Nonfiction |
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Record details
- ISBN: 9781616205768
- ISBN: 1616205768
- Physical Description: xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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