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Orphans - A History
Author: Jeremy Seabrook
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Retail Price: | $59.95 |
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ISBN: 9781849049429
Format: Hardback
Published: November 2018
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Published: November 2018
Published By: NA
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Product Description
Orphans have often been beneficiaries of charity and compassion - but society has also punished, abused and ill-treated them. Attitudes behind this maltreatment are rooted in ideas that those without parents are disruptive, malevolent, and in need of discipline.Drawing on historic documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history's changing and often loose definitions of 'orphans', and explores their many 'makers' - from natural or man-made catastrophes to the State, charity, and other social forces that have separated children, especially the poor, from their close kin.