| Description |
1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-316). |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 devoted to the broad history of sibling relations, spanning the long period of transition from early to modern 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Siblings -- United States -- History.
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Siblings. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hemphill, C. Dallett, 1959- Siblings. New York : Oxford University Press, c2011 9780199754052 (DLC) 2010053170 (OCoLC)681503792 |
| ISBN |
9780199830411 electronic book |
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019983041X electronic book |
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9780199754052 alkaline paper |
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0199754055 alkaline paper |
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1283160277 |
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9781283160278 |
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