Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America by Michael Grossberg

Studies in Legal History

Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America

Michael Grossberg

417 pages 1985

2 editions

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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 illegi...

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