Making Manhood

Growing Up Male in Colonial New England

Anne S. Lombard

    Preface

    Introduction: The Ideal of Rational Manhood

    1. Fathers and Sons from Infancy through Boyhood

    2. Youth and the Passions: Friendship and Love before 1700

    3. Youth and the Challenge of the Eighteenth Century

    4. Manhood and Marriage

    5. Manliness and the Use of Force

    6. Manhood and Politics

    Epilogue: Intimate Relationships and Autonomous Manhood in the Nineteenth Century

    Notes

    Index

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Anne Lombard is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos