ISBN:
0807822221
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0807847127
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0807860212
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9780807822227
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9780807847121
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9780807860212
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 355 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in legal history
DDC:
306.85/0975/09034
Keywords:
Reconstruction (United States / 1865-1877)
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1865 - 1877
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Domestic relations / Southern States / History
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Families / Southern States / History
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Southern States / Social conditions
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Reference
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Domestic relations
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Families
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Social history
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Gezinshuishoudingen
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Famille / Droit / États-Unis (sud) / 19e siècle
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Geschichte
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Sozialgeschichte
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Domestic relations History
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Families
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Familienstruktur
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Familienrecht
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USA Südstaaten
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Hochschulschrift
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USA Südstaaten
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Familienrecht
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Familienstruktur
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Geschichte 1800-1900
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1987. - 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and index
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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
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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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