1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780873503321

Autore

Carp E. Wayne

Titolo

Adoption in America [[electronic resource] ] : Historical Perspectives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-44527-8

9786612445279

0-472-02463-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarpE Wayne

Disciplina

362.73

Soggetti

Adoptees -- United States -- History

Adoption -- United States -- History

Electronic books. -- local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996218535103316

Titolo

Biosemiotics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Dordrecht], Netherlands, : Springer

ISSN

1875-1350

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Biology - Semiotics

Biological models

Communication

Models, Biological

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed