Cover: Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England, from Harvard University PressCover: Making Manhood in E-DITION

Making Manhood

Growing Up Male in Colonial New England

Harvard University Press has partnered with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all in-copyright HUP books that had become unavailable since their original publication. The 2,800 titles in the “e-ditions” program can be purchased individually as PDF eBooks or as hardcover reprint (“print-on-demand”) editions via the “Available from De Gruyter” link above. They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog. More about the E-ditions Program »

  • 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

Recent News

From Our Blog

Photo of Lucia Jacobs as a child sitting next to Oaky

How to Plant a Forest

For this week’s University Press Week Blog Tour, Lucia Jacobs offers us a glimpse of environmental stewardship as seen through the activities of the ubiquitous squirrel, a species native to the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia from the Eocene Epoch onward. Lucia Jacobs is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the…

‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’

The digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.