A Social History of the American Family
Vol. 1, 2 & 3
1,100+ pages
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Vol. 1 The Colonial Period (346 pages)
I OLD WORLD ORIGINS -THE WIDER BACKGROUND . . . 13
II OLD WORLD ORIGINS - SPECIFIC SOURCES ... 29
III COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND . . . 51
IV THE NEW ENGLAND FAMILY - PRESTIGE AND FUNCTIONS . . . 67
V THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIAL FAMILY . . .83
VI THE STATUS OF CHILDREN IN THE NEW ENGLANDCOLONIAL FAMILY . . .105
VII SEX SIN AND FAMILY FAILURE IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND . .
VIII SEX AND MARRIAGE IN COLONIAL NEW YORK . . 153
IX FAMILY LIFE AND PROBLEMS IN COLONIAL NEW YORK . . .167
X COLONIAL NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE . . . 185
XI THE FAMILY IN COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA. . . 199
XII THE FAMILY MOTIVE IN SOUTHERN COLONIZATION . . . 215
XIII FAMILISM AND HOME LIFE IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH . . .229
XIV SOUTHERN COLONIAL COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE AS
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS . . . 245
XV REGULATION AND SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES . . . 259
XVI WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH . . 273
XVII CHILDHOOD IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH . . . 285
XVIII FAMILY PATHOLOGY AND SOCIAL CENSORSHIP IN
THE COLONIAL SOUTH ..... 299
XIX SERVITUDE AND SEXUALITY IN THE SOUTHERN
COLONIES ........ 313
XX FRENCH COLONIES IN THE WEST . . . . 331
BIBLIOGRAPHY ......... 337
Vol. 2 From Independence to the Civil War (386 pages)
Covers marriage, fecundity, childhood, emergence of women, sex morals, racial sex, family and home
Vol. 3 Since the Civil War (409 pages)
Covers miscegenation, american life basis, woman's world revolution, career of the child, patriarchism and
familism, divorce, the Church, family and social revolution.