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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"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"--
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