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Author Cott, Nancy F.

Title Public vows : a history of marriage and the nation / Nancy F. Cott.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.85 C827p 2000    ---  DUE 05-10-24
Description 297 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An archaeology of American monogamy -- Perfecting community rules with state laws -- Domestic relations on the national agenda -- Toward a single standard -- Monogamy as the law of social life -- Consent, the American way -- The modern architecture of marriage -- Public sanctity for a private realm -- Marriage revised and revived.
Subject Marriage -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 0674003209 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. UKM bA152868
NLGGC 195262662

 
    
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