Siblings
Subtitle: brothers and sisters in American history
By: C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780199754052
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Siblings in a new world; title: Comparing colonial childhoods; title: Survivors : sibling relations among adults; title: Siblings for keeps in early America; title: Siblings in a time of revolution; title: Finding fraternity : gender and the revolution in sentiment; title: Republican brothers and sisters at play; title: Shock absorbers : young adult siblings in the new century; title: Siblings and democracy in America; title: Northern homes in antebellum life and letters; title: The reign of sisters begins; title: Telling exceptions : slaves, planters, and pioneers.