C. Dallett Hemphill

Siblings

Brothers and Sisters in American History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780190215897
• ISBN-10: 0190215895
• Artikelnr.: 47862991

Autorenporträt

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