Making Manhood : : Growing Up Male in Colonial New England / / Anne S. Lombard.
Countering our image of early Anglo-American families as dominated by harsh, austere patriarchs, Anne Lombard challenges long-held assumptions about the history of family life by casting a fresh look at the experience of growing up male in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Drawing upo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Ideal of Rational Manhood
- 1 Fathers and Sons from Infancy through Boyhood
- 2 Youth and the Passions: Friendship and Love before 1700
- 3 Youth and the Challenge of the Eighteenth Century
- 4 Manhood and Marriage
- 5 Manliness and the Use of Force
- 6 Manhood and Politics
- Epilogue: Intimate Relationships and Autonomous Manhood in the Nineteenth Century
- Notes
- Index