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Siblings : brothers and sisters in American history /

Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance. Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent-child relations. Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book...

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Main Author: Hemphill, C. Dallett, 1959-2015.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects and Genres:
Ursinus College > Faculty Authors.
Siblings > United States > History.
Frères et sœurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Brothers and sisters.
Syskon > historia > Förenta staterna > 1700-talet > 1800-talet.
Syskonrelationer > historia > Förenta staterna > 1700-talet > 1800-talet.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Siblings in a new world. Comparing colonial childhoods
  • Survivors : sibling relations among adults
  • Siblings for keeps in early America
  • Siblings in a time of revolution. Finding fraternity : gender and the revolution in sentiment
  • Republican brothers and sisters at play
  • Shock absorbers : young adult siblings in the new century
  • Siblings and democracy in America. Northern homes in antebellum life and letters
  • The reign of sisters begins
  • Telling exceptions : slaves, planters, and pioneers
  • Appendix.

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