Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion 0674978749, 9780674978744

During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant or

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Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
0674978749, 9780674978744

This book examines the impact of westward migration on political development and behavior in Ohio, the most populous mid

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A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption fro

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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery. It’

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An excoriation of bio-essentialism, this book turns conventional wisdom about adoption, identity, and biological family

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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War lef

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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left

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What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biolog

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The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the t

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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery. It’

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In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if th

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