TY - BOOK AU - Huret,Romain TI - Se marier pour vivre plus longtemps ? Le suicide des célibataires en perspective transatlantique (1870-1920) PY - 2018///. N1 - 81 N2 - This paper places unmarried people into the mainstream of American history. It looks at the cultural construct of singlehood as a threat for the future of the American people during the Progressive Era. This fear of singlehood was based upon intellectual exchanges between Europe and the United States, and established a correlation between marital status and suicide. It is no coincidence that advocates of the « race suicide theory » targeted unmarried people, not only in their discourse, but also in the social practices they implemented UR - https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2018-2-page-62?lang=fr&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -