Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
by Coontz, Stephanie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good Dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 067003407X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034079
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History , historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Desert Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 811
- Title
- Marriage, a History
- Author
- Coontz, Stephanie
- Format/Binding
- Bound in white covers, black spine, and dustjacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067003407X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034079
- Publisher
- Viking Press; publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 432 pages
- Size
- 6in x 9in
- Keywords
- marriage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology & Sociology;
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