Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories

Author:   Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 May 2019
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Author:   Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781350112384


ISBN 10:   1350112380
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Making Marriage 'Modern', Julia Moses (University of Sheffield, UK) Part I: Marriage and Forms of the Family 1. From Liberalism to Human Dignity: The Transformation of Marriage and Family Rights in Brazil, 1822-2013, Sueann Caulfield (University of Michigan, USA) 2. From Toleration to Prosecution: Concubinage and the Law in Modern China, Lisa Tran (California State University at Fullerton, USA) 3. The Birth of Mistresses and Bastards: A History of Marriage in Siam (Thailand), Tamara Loos (Cornell University, USA) 4. Royal Marriage in Europe: An Inherently Conservative System, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (University of Oxford, UK) Part II: Marriage, Religion and the State 5. 'Til death do you part': Catholicism, Marriage and Culture War in Austria(-Hungary), Ulrike Harmat (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 6. Modernizing Marriage in Egypt, Kenneth M. Cuno (University of Illinois, USA) 7. 'A Babel of Law': Hindu Marriage, Global Spaces and Intimate Subjects in Late Nineteenth-Century India, Leigh Denault (University of Cambridge, UK) 8. English Exports: Invoking the Common Law of Marriage across the Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Rebecca Probert (University of Warwick, UK) Part III: Marriage, Kinship and Community 9. Finding the Ordinary in the Extraordinary: Marriage Norms and Bigamy in Canada, Melanie Methot (University of Alberta, Augustana Campus, Canada) 10. Equality before the Law? The Intermarriage Debate in Post-Nazi Germany, Julia Woesthoff (DePaul University, USA) 11. Customary and Civil Marriage Law and the Question of Gender Equality in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Gabon and Africa, Rachel Jean-Baptiste (University of California at Davis, USA) Postscript: How History Matters in Same-Sex Marriage Rights, Nancy F. Cott (Harvard University, USA)

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This is an enormously rich trousseau of legal histories of marriage and human rights from all continents, by an eminent gathering of historians. * Goeran Therborn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK, author of Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000 * Using the lens of legal, political, and religious discourses over marriage, the contributors to Marriage, Law and Modernity shed fascinating new light on the complex and highly contested nature of larger processes of modernization and globalization since the eighteenth century. This volume is a highly valuable source for anyone interested in the history of gender, colonialism, and the modern state and its laws. * Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington, USA *


This is an enormously rich trousseau of legal histories of marriage and human rights from all continents, by an eminent gathering of historians. * Göran Therborn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK, author of Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000 * Using the lens of legal, political, and religious discourses over marriage, the contributors to Marriage, Law and Modernity shed fascinating new light on the complex and highly contested nature of larger processes of “modernization” and “globalization” since the eighteenth century. This volume is a highly valuable source for anyone interested in the history of gender, colonialism, and the modern state and its laws. * Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington, USA *


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Julia Moses is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Welfare States (2018) and the co-editor of The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (2012).

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