(Read and download) Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History)
❀ Michael Grossberg ❀
| #2206282 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 1988-08-01 | 1988-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.01 x1.08 x5.94l,1.39 | File Name: 0807842257 | 436 pages |
||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Dry but the general argument holds up|By Jeffrey Leach|Any attempt to assemble a detailed picture of society must take into consideration the legal structures that function within that culture. A court system works in two ways: judges influence society through its rulings as often as society at large influences the judicial system. Michael Grossberg's "Governing the Hearth:|From the Back Cover|Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption and rights for i
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs. Grossberg further illustrates why many basic...
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