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Zusatztext Hemphill's striking insights into lateral relationships among children provides a provocative template for thinking about how childhood bonds sustained individuals who faced the constant upheavals of slavery, of removal, and of cultural erasure. This book will be of great value for scholars interested in early American history, the history of the family, and childhood studies. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
