{"product_id":"a-home-from-home-claudia-soares-9780192897473","title":"A Home from Home?: Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920","description":"A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, \u003cem\u003eA Home From Home?\u003c\/em\u003e presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision. Departing from narratives of reform and discipline which have dominated scholarship, and drawing on material culture and social history approaches, as well as the extensive archives of the Waifs and Strays Society, Claudia Soares provides a new type of study of social care by offering a 'bottom-up' study of children's welfare, and studying the significance of specific types of care practices that held particular cultural and ideological meaning. At its core, the book uses unique first-hand accounts, individual case records, and personal correspondence of children in care in Britain to locate the voices and subjectivities of institutionalised children and their families within the voluntary welfare system between 1870 and 1920. In doing so, it uncovers the real lives, experiences, and attitudes of the children and their families, and offers a timely new approach to understanding the history of children's social care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Soares\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192897470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192897473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.40w x 1.20d","brand":"Claudia Soares","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44121641484543,"sku":"9780192897473","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9fd7fa4-631a-45a1-8ce6-6c1e36111ac5.jpg?v=1687420764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-home-from-home-claudia-soares-9780192897473","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}