02375nam 2200553Ia 450 991078961540332120230207214134.00-8014-5904-4(CKB)2670000000080997(OCoLC)609222274(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457560(SSID)ssj0000483343(PQKBManifestationID)11302975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483343(PQKBWorkID)10529251(PQKB)11515129(MiAaPQ)EBC3137939(MdBmJHUP)muse28857(Au-PeEL)EBL3137939(CaPaEBR)ebr10457560(EXLCZ)99267000000008099720081020d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCitizen bachelors[electronic resource] manhood and the creation of the United States /John Gilbert McCurdyIthaca Cornell University Press20091 online resource (282 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4788-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.BachelorsUnited StatesHistory17th centuryBachelorsUnited StatesHistory18th centuryUnited StatesSocial life and customsTo 1775United StatesSocial life and customs1775-1783BachelorsHistoryBachelorsHistory306.81/520973McCurdy John Gilbert1972-1523055MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789615403321Citizen bachelors3763122UNINA