{"product_id":"the-boardinghouse-in-nineteenthcentury-america-9780801885716","title":"The Boardinghouse in NineteenthCentury America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom ravenous bedbugs to penny-pinching landladies, from disreputable housemates to \"boarder's beef,Gamber illuminates the annoyances-and the satisfactions-of nineteenth-century boarding life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMs. Gamber paints an exhausting picture of the typical landlady's work and expense and the residents' grumblings. -- Nina C. Ayoub Chronicle of Higher Education 2007 Gamber does a good job introducing and discussing this once-ubiquitous institution. Choice A lively account. Book News 2008 This book is an important scholarly contribution that helps us understand how the most basic challenges of life... had a profound impact on the American past. It is a model of creative social history that encourages scholars to transcend traditional intellectual boundaries and begin new conversations in a fragmented academic world. -- Eric J. Morser Enterprise and Society 2008 Crucial reading for scholars interested in the nineteenth-century city, women's work and entrepreneurship, and the development of domestic ideology. -- Elaine Frantz Parsons American Historical Review 2008 An excellent and important book that reframes the meaning of the home. -- Amy S. Greenberg Journal of Social History 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Houses and Homes\u003cbr\u003e1. Away from Home\u003cbr\u003e2. Keeping House\u003cbr\u003e3. \"The Most Cruel and Thankless Way a Woman Can EarnHer Living\"\u003cbr\u003e4. Boarders' Beefs\u003cbr\u003e5. Nests of Crime and Dens of Vice\u003cbr\u003e6. \"Will They Board, or Keep House?\"\u003cbr\u003e7. Charity Begins at Home\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: \"Decay of the Boarding-House\"\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eEssay on Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527625548119,"sku":"9780801885716","price":43.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801885716.jpg?v=1731868596","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-boardinghouse-in-nineteenthcentury-america-9780801885716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}