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- Discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War
- Focuses on how such practices were influenced by competing nationalist and political discourses
- Explores how orphanages became privileged institutions for nation building
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Andrea Griffante
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children, Poverty and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940
Authors: Andrea Griffante
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30870-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30869-8Published: 14 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30870-4Published: 05 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 148
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Modern Europe, Social History, Childhood, Adolescence and Society