| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a historical overview of American adoption / E. Wayne Carp -- A good home : indenture and adoption in nineteenth-century orphanages / Susan L. Porter -- Buildind a nation, building a family : adoption in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Carol J. Singley -- What's love got to do with it? : "adoption" in Victorian and Edwardian England / George K. Behlmer -- A historical comparison of Catholic and Jewish adoption practices in Chicago, 1833-1933 / Paula F. Pfeffer -- Rescue a child and save the nation : the social construction of adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911 / Julie Berebitsky -- A nation's need for adoption and competing realities : the Washington Children's Home Society, 1895-1915 / Patricia S. Hart -- Adoption agencies and the search for the ideal family, 1918-1965 / Brian Paul Gill -- When in doubt, count : World War II as a watershed in the history of adoption / E. Wayne Carp and Anna Leon-Guerrero -- Adoption stories : autobiographical narrative and the politics of identity / Barbara Melosh. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Adoption -- United States -- History.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
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Adoption. (OCoLC)fst00797076
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Adoptie.
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Adoption.
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Geschichte.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Carp, E. Wayne, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adoption in America. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2002 9780472030545 (DLC) 2002009737 (OCoLC)50079935 |
| ISBN |
9780472024636 (electronic bk.) |
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0472024639 (electronic bk.) |
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