02493nam 22005653u 450 991045634280332120210114084606.01-282-44527-897866124452790-472-02463-9(CKB)2520000000006797(EBL)3414574(OCoLC)842259876(SSID)ssj0000333923(PQKBManifestationID)11242262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333923(PQKBWorkID)10378535(PQKB)11512693(MiAaPQ)EBC3414574(EXLCZ)99252000000000679720160404d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrAdoption in America[electronic resource] Historical PerspectivesAnn Arbor University of Michigan Press20091 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-472-03054-X 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, 1907-1911A 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; IndexAdoptees -- United States -- HistoryAdoption -- United States -- HistoryElectronic books. -- localElectronic books.Adoptees -- United States -- History.Adoption -- United States -- History.Electronic books. -- local.362.73Carp E. WayneCarp E Wayne902606AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910456342803321Adoption in America2017775UNINA