Title Citizen bachelors : manhood and the creation of the United States / John Gilbert McCurdy

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-260) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Bachelors -- United States -- History -- 17th century Bachelors -- United States -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) Bachelors. Manners and customs. Kultur Lediger SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140528 United States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140531 Subject United States. USA Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801459047 0801459044

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