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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES, pg. ix*LIST OF TABLES, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiv*ONE. Introduction, pg. 3*TWO . Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia, pg. 8*THREE. "You Too Shall Live": The Betskoi System, pg. 31*FOUR. The Era of the Turning Cradle in Europe and Russia, pg. 62*FIVE. Public Criticism and Piecemeal Reform, pg. 84*SIX. A Break with the Past, pg. 106*SEVEN. Sex Ratios of the Abandoned Children, pg. 130*EIGHT. The Abandoning Mothers, pg. 150*NINE. Fosterage: The First One Hundred Years, pg. 176*TEN . The Foundling Market: A Network of Exchange between Town and Village, pg. 198*ELEVEN. Geography of the Fosterage System, pg. 222*TWELVE. Social and Medical Consequences of Fosterage, pg. 256*THIRTEEN. Conclusions, pg. 294*APPENDIX, pg. 303*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 309*INDEX, pg. 325
