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how love conquered marriage

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An edition of Marriage, a history (2005)

Marriage, a history

how love conquered marriage

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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. “Provocative, erudite and entertaining. What makes this book so important is its honesty and courage. It raises the important debates about marriage in America to a higher level.” —Chicago Tribune “Engrossing . . . Coontz is at the top of her writing game here.” —The Seattle Times

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
432

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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
Jun 21, 2016, Tantor Audio
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Marriage, a History
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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Marriage, a history: how love conquered marriage
2006, Penguin Books
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
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Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
May 23, 2005, Viking Adult
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Table of Contents

In search of traditional marriage
The radical idea of marrying for love
The many meanings of marriage
The invention of marriage
The era of political marriage
Soap operas of the ancient world
Something borrowed: the marital legacy of the classical world and early Christianity
Playing the Bishop, capturing the queen: Aristocratic marriages in Early Medieval Europe
How the other 95 percent wed: marriage among the common folk of the middle ages
Something old, something new: Western European marriage at the dawn of the modern age
The love revolution
From yoke mates to soul mates: emergence of the love match and the male provider marriage
"Two birds within one nest": sentimental marriage in nineteenth-century Europe and North America
"A heaving volcano": beneath the surface of Victorian marriage
"The time when mountains move has come": from sentimental to sexual marriage
Making do, then making babies: marriage in the Great Depression and World War II
The era of Ozzie and Harriet: the long decade of "traditional" marriage
Courting disaster? The collapse of universal and lifelong marriage
Winds of change: marriage in the 1960s and 1970s
The perfect storm: the transformation of marriage at the end of the twentieth century
Uncharted territory: how the transformation of marriage is changing our lives
Better or worse? The future of marriage.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Viking, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Library of Congress
HQ503 .C66 2006

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Pagination
xi, 432 p. ;
Number of pages
432

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OL15626763M
Internet Archive
marriagehistoryh0000coon
ISBN 10
014303667X
ISBN 13
9780143036678
OCLC/WorldCat
64589809
Library Thing
40713
Goodreads
10163

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