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Orphans: a history

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hurst Publishers 2018 LondonDescription: vii, 363 p. Includes notes and indexISBN:
  • 9781849049429
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23086945 S3O7
Summary: 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 Drawing on historical documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history’s changing and often loose definitions of ‘orphans’, and explores their many ‘makers’—from natural or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. But this history is not only one of suffering: Orphans also reveals the uncounted millions taken in and loved by relatives, neighbours or strangers. Freed from constraints and driven by insecurity, many orphans—including Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe and Steve Jobs—have led remarkable lives. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/orphan/
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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Drawing on historical documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history’s changing and often loose definitions of ‘orphans’, and explores their many ‘makers’—from natural or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.
But this history is not only one of suffering: Orphans also reveals the uncounted millions taken in and loved by relatives, neighbours or strangers. Freed from constraints and driven by insecurity, many orphans—including Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe and Steve Jobs—have led remarkable lives.

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/orphan/

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