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The struggle for equal adulthood : gender, race, age, and the fight for citizenship in the antebellum America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Field, Corinne T.
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Equality before the law > United States > History > 19th century.
Adulthood > United States > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Adulthood.
Citizenship.
Equality before the law.
Politics and government.
United States.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
1800 - 1899
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Adult independence and the limits of revolution
  • Democratic citizenship as a stage of life
  • Chronological age and equal rights
  • The voyage of life and equal opportunity
  • Competing measures of mature citizenship
  • Perpetual minority and the failure of reconstruction
  • Epilogue : aging and inequality.