Orphans and abandoned children in European history : sixteenth to twentieth centuries / edited by Nicoleta Roman.

Introduction / Nicoleta Roman -- In search of an identity -- Orphaned, abandoned, without a family : the establishment and consequences of the institution of slavery / Alessandro Stella -- Should abandoned children be baptised? : the French case, the 16th to the early 20th century / Vincent Gourdon -- Constructing a social identity : state, abandoned children and family in mid-19th century Bucharest / Nicoleta Roman -- Italian assistance patterns for orphans in the 18th and 19th centuries / Giovanna da Molina, Angela Carbone, Annamaria Gaetana de Pinto -- What path to follow: education or work? -- Seminario soleti : higher education for abandoned children in Siena in the early modern period (1645-1784) / Tobias Schmidt -- The origin and the network of the Ottoman reform schools (The islahhanes of 1860s-1870s) / Margarita Dobreva -- Children admitted to public care in the basses-alpes department (France) in the late 19th century (1874-1904) : modes of training and work placement / Isabelle Grenut -- Play, work and petty crime : children on the streets and public spaces of late 19th and early 20th-century Vienna / Maria Papathanassiou -- Life in urban and rural environment -- A foster placement project for abandoned children from Paris in the countryside, 1760-1770 / Isabelle Robin -- The children of the commune : care of abandoned children in early-modern Dubrovnik / Rina Kralj-Brassard -- Orphaned children in Bohemian rural society in the first half of the 19th century : care, co-residence and inheritance practices / Mark�eta Skorepov�a -- Who should be placed in the countryside? : changing practices of rural placement for abandoned infants in la Inclusa de Madrid, 1890-1935 / Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios -- Index.