The overflowing of friendship [electronic resource] : love between men and the creation of the American republic / Richard Godbeer.

By: Godbeer, RichardContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Description: xii, 254 pSubject(s): Men -- United States -- History -- 18th century | Male friendship -- United States -- History -- 18th century | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1783Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.310973/09033 LOC classification: HQ1090.3 | .G63 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"The friend of my bosom": a Philadelphian love story -- "A settled portion of my happiness": friendship, sentiment, and eighteenth-century manhood -- "The best blessing we know": male love and spiritual communion in early America -- "A band of brothers": fraternal love in the Continental Army -- "The overflowing of friendship": friends, brothers, and citizens in a republic of sympathy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-246) and index.

"The friend of my bosom": a Philadelphian love story -- "A settled portion of my happiness": friendship, sentiment, and eighteenth-century manhood -- "The best blessing we know": male love and spiritual communion in early America -- "A band of brothers": fraternal love in the Continental Army -- "The overflowing of friendship": friends, brothers, and citizens in a republic of sympathy.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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