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Title Adoption in America : historical perspectives / edited by E. Wayne Carp
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Adoption -- United States -- History
Adoptees -- United States -- History
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
HISTORY -- General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
HISTORY -- General.
Adoptees
Adoption
Adoption
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Adoption
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Adoptie.
Adoptie.
United States
USA
USA.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Carp, E. Wayne, 1946-
LC no. 2002009737
ISBN 9780472024636
0472024639