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1 online resource (xxi, 355 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in legal history
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Studies in legal history.
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Note |
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1987. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and index. |
Summary |
Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order. |
Contents |
The days beyond the flood -- Patriarchy and the law in the old South -- Sex crimes, sexuality, and the courts -- Keeping the child -- After the flood -- The transformation of southern legal culture, 1860-1880 -- The evolution of contractual families -- The forces of persistence: race, blood, and gender -- Domestic governance in the new South. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Domestic relations -- Southern States -- History.
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Domestic relations. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Families -- Southern States.
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Families. |
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Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
Chronological Term |
1865-1877 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bardaglio, Peter Winthrop. Reconstructing the household. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995 0807822221 (DLC) 95011798 (OCoLC)32272911 |
ISBN |
0807860212 (electronic book) |
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9780807860212 (electronic book) |
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9780807822227 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807822221 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807847127 |
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9780807847121 |
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