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Citizen bachelors : manhood and the creation of the United States
- Title
- Citizen bachelors : manhood and the creation of the United States / John Gilbert McCurdy.
- Author
- McCurdy, John Gilbert, 1972-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 268 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-260) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : bachelors in early America -- "Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants" : singles in early colonial America -- "If a single man and able he shall make satisfaction" : the bachelor laws -- "Every one of them shall be chained about the middle to a post like a monkey" : literary representations of the bachelor -- "I resolve to live a bachelor while I remain in this wicked country" : living single in early America -- "The bachelor is the only free man" : the single man and the American Revolution -- Epilogue : bachelors since 1800 -- Appendix : singles' laws, 1500-1800.
- Call Number
- IID 09-7122
- ISBN
- 9780801447884 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801447887 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008045803
- 40016621637
- OCLC
- 264670033
- Author
- McCurdy, John Gilbert, 1972-
- Title
- Citizen bachelors : manhood and the creation of the United States / John Gilbert McCurdy.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-260) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40016621637
- Research Call Number
- IID 09-7122