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Author

Gamber, Wendy, 1958- author.

Title The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / Wendy Gamber.

Publication Info.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index.
Contents	Introduction : Houses and homes -- Away from home -- Keeping house -- "The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living" -- Boarders' beefs -- Nests of crime and dens of vice -- "Will they board, or keep house?" -- Charity begins at home -- Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house".
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Lodging-houses -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Boardinghouses -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Gamber, Wendy. Boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 xii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm 9780801885716 (OCoLC)ocm70676521
ISBN	9780801885716 (alk. paper)
	080188571X (alk. paper)
	9781421402598 (electronic bk.)