Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rediscovering Lost InnocenceCondition: NewSubtitle: Archaeology at the State Home and SchoolISBN-10: 0759110964EAN: 9780759110960ISBN: 9780759110960Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/29/2017Description: In the first half of the nineteenth-century, responsibility for child care primarily rested within families. Needy children were often cared for by community-sponsored efforts that varied widely in quality, as well as by benevolent organizations dedicated to children’s welfare. The late 1800s was marked by major social service infrastructure construction and development. During this period, guided by progressive concerns about the role of the state in responding to societal changes resulting from urbanization and industrialization, Rhode Island took on a more active statewide role in public education, sewers, parks, prisons, and child welfare systems. New ideas about civil rights extended to race, to women, to labor, and to children. Old institutions, such as town almshouses and poor farms, were replaced by state institutions, such as the State Home, which opened in 1885. One might expect to find a huge record for custodial children well imbedded in regional literatures or social science and history texts, yet this is not the case. The State Home Project began in 2001 with no evocative life histories, and no local or regional childhood narratives about the former residents of the State Home upon which to build. It remains an important place because thousands of children and citizens lived portions of their lives there. Documenting children's educational, social and health experiences are not inconsequential. To be sure, varied narratives about custodial children developed as we dug into the soils, read unexamined case histories, and talked with former residents. Archaeology offers the possibility of recovering lost and missing details, and, in collaboration with other disciplines, creates a rich narrative of a place. These experiences were significant in our past; they are important to us in the present and to future generations. They demonstrate our common history.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 239mmItem Length: 161mmItem Width: 29mmItem Weight: 662gAuthor: E. Pierre MorenonGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Rediscovering Lost Innocence
Title: Rediscovering Lost Innocence
Subtitle: Archaeology at the State Home and School
ISBN-10: 0759110964
EAN: 9780759110960
ISBN: 9780759110960
Release Date: 11/29/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rediscovering Lost Innocence : Archaeology at the State Home and School
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Archaeology, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Weight: 23.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: E. Pierre Morenon
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
