Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
C. Dallett Hemphill is a Professor of History at Ursinus College. She is the author of Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 (OUP).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Siblings in a New World Ch 1: Comparing Colonial Childhoods Ch 2: Survivors: Sibling Relations Among Adults Ch 3: Siblings for Keeps in Early America Part II: Siblings in a Time of Revolution Ch 4: Finding Fraternity: Gender and the Revolution in Sentiment Ch 5: Republican Brothers and Sisters at Play Ch 6: Shock Absorbers: Young Adult Siblings in the New Century Part III: Siblings and Democracy in America Ch 7: Northern Homes in Antebellum Life and Letters Ch 8: The Reign of Sisters Begins Ch 9: Telling Exceptions: Slaves, Planters, and Pioneers Epilogue: To the "Back Seat Wars" Appendix: The Case of the Missing Siblings in Western Family History Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Siblings in a New World Ch 1: Comparing Colonial Childhoods Ch 2: Survivors: Sibling Relations Among Adults Ch 3: Siblings for Keeps in Early America Part II: Siblings in a Time of Revolution Ch 4: Finding Fraternity: Gender and the Revolution in Sentiment Ch 5: Republican Brothers and Sisters at Play Ch 6: Shock Absorbers: Young Adult Siblings in the New Century Part III: Siblings and Democracy in America Ch 7: Northern Homes in Antebellum Life and Letters Ch 8: The Reign of Sisters Begins Ch 9: Telling Exceptions: Slaves, Planters, and Pioneers Epilogue: To the "Back Seat Wars" Appendix: The Case of the Missing Siblings in Western Family History Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index
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