Author: | Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge | ISBN: | 9781486497522 |
Publisher: | Emereo Publishing | Publication: | March 14, 2013 |
Imprint: | Emereo Publishing | Language: | English |
Author: | Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge |
ISBN: | 9781486497522 |
Publisher: | Emereo Publishing |
Publication: | March 14, 2013 |
Imprint: | Emereo Publishing |
Language: | English |
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of New Homes for Old. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, which is now, at last, again available to you.
Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have New Homes for Old in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.
Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside New Homes for Old:
Look inside the book:
Some were persons of more educational and cultural background than the majority of immigrants, some of them had been born in this country or had come when they were young children; but there were more who came to this country from the same Old-World conditions as the majority of their countrymen and had worked their way through the same hard conditions. ...Thus, in the family groups with whom the Russians were living, only 18 per cent of the adult members of the family had the four hundred cubic feet of air required by the city ordinance for a person over twelve, as compared with 35 per cent of the boarders or lodgers, and forty of the fifty-three children in the groups26 were deprived of the two hundred cubic feet of air space that is prescribed for them.
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of New Homes for Old. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, which is now, at last, again available to you.
Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have New Homes for Old in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.
Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside New Homes for Old:
Look inside the book:
Some were persons of more educational and cultural background than the majority of immigrants, some of them had been born in this country or had come when they were young children; but there were more who came to this country from the same Old-World conditions as the majority of their countrymen and had worked their way through the same hard conditions. ...Thus, in the family groups with whom the Russians were living, only 18 per cent of the adult members of the family had the four hundred cubic feet of air required by the city ordinance for a person over twelve, as compared with 35 per cent of the boarders or lodgers, and forty of the fifty-three children in the groups26 were deprived of the two hundred cubic feet of air space that is prescribed for them.