Citizen bachelors
Subtitle: manhood and the creation of the United States
By: John Gilbert McCurdy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780801447884
Subjects: Bachelors -- United States -- History -- 17th century; Bachelors -- United States -- History -- 18th century; United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1783
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : bachelors in early America; title: "Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants" : singles in early colonial America; title: "If a single man and able he shall make satisfaction" : the bachelor laws; title: "Every one of them shall be chained about the middle to a post like a monkey" : literary representations of the bachelor; title: "I resolve to live a bachelor while I remain in this wicked country" : living single in early America; title: "The bachelor is the only free man" : the single man and the American Revolution; title: Epilogue : bachelors since 1800; title: Appendix : singles' laws, 1500-1800.