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Adoption in America : historical perspectives / edited by E. Wayne Carp.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--United States--History.
- Adoption.
- Adoptees--United States--History.
- Adoptees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collects essays that provide an overview of the history of adoption in the United States.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: A Historical Overview of American Adoption; A Good Home: Indenture and Adoption in Nineteenth-Century Orphanages; Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature; What's Love Got to Do with It?: "Adoption" in Victorian and Edwardian England; A Historical Comparison of Catholic and Jewish Adoption Practices in Chicago, 1833-1933; Rescue a Child and Save the Nation: The Social Construction of Adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911
- A Nation's Need for Adoption and Competing Realities: The Washington Children's Home Society, 1895-1915Adoption Agencies and the Search for the Ideal Family,1918-1965; When in Doubt, Count: World War II as a Watershed in the History of Adoption; Adoption Stories: Autobiographical Narrative and the Politics of Identity; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-44527-8
- 9786612445279
- 0-472-02463-9
- OCLC:
- 842259876
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