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9780814771815 | New York Univ Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But whatâor whoâmust be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict...read more
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9780812240757 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 22, 2008, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one.
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9780812220827 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 25, 2009, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one.
Product Description: In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674002623 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence.
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9780674008113 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, May 3, 2002), cover price $30.50 | About this edition: In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence.
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9780674003200 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $29.50
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9780674008755 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 8, 2002, cover price $27.00
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9780679423218, titled ""I Do!": Courtship, Love, and Marriage on the American Frontier : A Glimpse at America's Romantic Past Through Photographs, Diaries, and Journals" | Villard Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $42.01
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9780517884492 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 1996), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Describes the hardships faced by courting frontier couples
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9780837721804 | Reprint edition (Fred B Rothman & Co, November 1, 1994), cover price $195.00
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9780060464219 | Harpercollins College Div, September 1, 1988, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This is a book
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