LEADER 02375nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910810506403321 005 20230207214134.0 010 $a0-8014-5904-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080997 035 $a(OCoLC)609222274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457560 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483343 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11302975 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483343 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529251 035 $a(PQKB)11515129 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137939 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137939 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457560 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080997 100 $a20081020d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCitizen bachelors$b[electronic resource] $emanhood and the creation of the United States /$fJohn Gilbert McCurdy 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4788-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 606 $aBachelors$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aBachelors$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1775-1783 615 0$aBachelors$xHistory 615 0$aBachelors$xHistory 676 $a306.81/520973 700 $aMcCurdy$b John Gilbert$f1972-$01706939 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810506403321 996 $aCitizen bachelors$94094752 997 $aUNINA