Citizen Bachelors - Manhood and the Creation of the United States

John Gilbert McCurdy is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University.

Summary

In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was...

Product details

• Authors: John Gilbert McCurdy
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781501746833
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4683-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous