Public vows : a history of marriage and the nation / Nancy Cott.

Cambridge (Mass) : Harvard University Press, 2001.

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Marriage -- United States -- History.

1. An archaeology of American monogamy

2. Perfecting community rules with state lawsa

3. Domestic relations on the national agenda

4. Towards a single standard

5. Monogamy as the law of social life

6. Consent, the American way

7. The modern architecture of marriage

8. Public sanctity for a private realm

9. Marriage revised and revived.

Includes index.

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297 p.