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Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, this study examines how these stories of poverty were narrated and reshaped by ethnic diversity, economic crisis, and war.

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Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/12/2011
      ISBN13: 9780226653631, 978-0226653631
      ISBN10: 0226653633
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, this study examines how these stories of poverty were narrated and reshaped by ethnic diversity, economic crisis, and war.

      Trade Review
      "Peel has written the first work of twenty-first-century history, and it stands as a model of how historians think and write multivocal accounts of the past. Convincing, provocative, and a pleasure to read." (Daniel Walkowitz, New York University)"

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