| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Annette Atkins. We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 194. $29.95.

Nineteenth-century historians have probed the bonds of parents and children, husbands and wives, and same-sex friendships but have curiously overlooked what is undisputably an enduring and significant relationship for many adults. Annette Atkins investigates many dimensions of the sibling bond in the lives of nineteenth-century adult men and women. Atkins is acutely sensitive to the emotional dimensions of sibling relationships, bringing her perspective as a member of a twelve-child family to bear on the stories she is narrating. In her introduction, she explains: "I'm taking my cues from my own experience of family, of my personal past and present. The result that I'm aiming for is a scholarship tempered by common sense and personal experience broadened by historical evidence" (p. 11). The book, then, is a very personal piece of scholarship that uses the historical past as a means of uncovering the emotional richness and diversity of family life in the United States. . . .

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