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Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
E. Wayne Carp
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Description for Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 drawings, 33 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption. ---Choice Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution. ---Library Journal Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption. ---Adoptive Families [T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research. ---Social Service Review Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages; changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels; Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers; the politics of matching adoptive parents with children; the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices; religion and the reform of adoption; and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
400g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472030545
SKU
V9780472030545
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About E. Wayne Carp
E. Wayne Carp is Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University.
Reviews for Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution.
Library Journal
Library Journal (09/15/2002) . . . a valuable addition to what the editor rightly identifies as an emerging 'subfield of history, ' the history of adoption.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
(09/01/2004) Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians...an important addition to the literature on adoption. Highly Recommended.
Choice
(09/01/2003) [T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research.
Social Service Review
Caroline L. Burry Social Service Review (12/01/2003) An important volume on a significant topic not yet addressed by published scholarship, Adoption in America is likely to provoke other serious studies.
Clarke A. Chambers, University of Minnesota
Clarke A. Chambers, University of Minnesota Well-written and accessible...showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption.
Adoptive Families
(03/01/2004) Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption.
-Adoptive Families [T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research.
-Social Service Review
Library Journal
Library Journal (09/15/2002) . . . a valuable addition to what the editor rightly identifies as an emerging 'subfield of history, ' the history of adoption.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
(09/01/2004) Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians...an important addition to the literature on adoption. Highly Recommended.
Choice
(09/01/2003) [T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research.
Social Service Review
Caroline L. Burry Social Service Review (12/01/2003) An important volume on a significant topic not yet addressed by published scholarship, Adoption in America is likely to provoke other serious studies.
Clarke A. Chambers, University of Minnesota
Clarke A. Chambers, University of Minnesota Well-written and accessible...showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption.
Adoptive Families
(03/01/2004) Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption.
-Adoptive Families [T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research.
-Social Service Review