Title Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history / Yunte Huang.

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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	920 HUANG	Check Shelf
Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department	B BUNKER	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	B BUNKER CHANG H	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography	B-BUNKER HUA	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	92 BUNKER, CHA	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies	B BUNKER CHANG H	Check Shelf
Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department	B BUNKER	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	xxvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-380) and index.
Contents	In Siam. Siam -- The Chinese twins -- Cholera -- The king and us -- Departure -- First years. A curiosity in Boston -- The monster, or not -- Gotham city -- The city of brotherly love -- Knocking at the gate -- Racial freaks -- Sentimental education -- America on the road. The great eclipse -- A satirical tale -- The Lynnfield battle -- An intimate rebellion -- Old dominion -- Emancipation -- A parable -- America on the road -- The deep south -- Head bumps -- Look homeward, angel. Wilkesboro -- Traphill -- A universal truth -- Foursome -- Mount Airy, or Monticello -- The age of humbugs -- Minstrel freaks -- The Civil War and beyond. Seeing the elephant -- Reconstruction -- The last radiance of the setting sun -- Afterlife -- Epilogue: Mayberry, USA.
Summary	A portrait of nineteenth-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker describes their rise from savvy side-show celebrities to wealthy Southern gentry and discusses how their experiences reflected America's historical penchant for objectifying differences.
Subject	Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874.
	Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874.
	Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874. (OCoLC)fst00103444
	Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874. (OCoLC)fst00103443
	Conjoined twins -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Conjoined twins -- United States -- Biography.
	Conjoined twins. (OCoLC)fst00875301
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
	HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
	Twins, Conjoined. (DNLM)D014428
	Biography.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
ISBN	9780871404473 (hardcover)
	0871404478 (hardcover)

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