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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.