Public vows a history of marriage and the nation /

Main Author: Cott, Nancy F.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Physical Description: v, 297 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An Archaeology of American Monogamy
  • Perfecting Community Rules with State Laws
  • Domestic Relations on the National Agenda
  • Towards a Single Standard
  • Monogamy as the Law of Social life
  • Consent, the American Wau
  • The Modern Architecture of Marriage
  • Public Sanctity for a Private Realm
  • Marriage Revised and Revived.