Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present

ISBN: 9781479870011 出版年：2015 页码：347 Field New York University Press

Contents Part I. Age in Early America 1. "Keep Me with You, So That I Might Not Be Damned": Age and Captivity in Colonial Borderlands Warfare 23 Ann M. Little 2. "Beyond the Time of White Children": African American Emancipation, Age, and Ascribed Neoteny in Early National Pennsylvania 47 Sharon Braslaw Sundue Part II. Age in the Long Nineteenth Century 3. "If You Have the Right to Vote at 21 Years, Then I Have": Age and Equal Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century United States 69 Corinne T. Field 4. A Birthday Like None Other: Turning Twenty-One in the Age of Popular Politics 86 Jon Grinspan 5. Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century 103 Nicholas L. Syrett 6. From Family Bibles to Birth Certificates: Young People, Proof of Age, and American Political Cultures, 1820-1915 124 Shane Landrum 7. "Rendered More Useful": Child Labor and Age Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century 148 James D. Schmidt 8. "A Day Too Late": Age, Immigration Quotas, and Racial Exclusion 166