Citizen bachelors: manhood and the creation of the united states
Auteur :
McCurdy, John Gilbert
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501746833
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
454 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was...