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Author Phillips, Roderick.

Title Untying the knot : a short history of divorce / Roderick Phillips
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
regular print
Series Canto
Canto (Cambridge University Press)
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Catholics and protestants -- 2. Seventeenth-century England and its American colonies -- 3. Secularisation, enlightenment, and the French revolution -- 4. Formal and informal divorce in early modern society -- 5. The meaning and context of marriage breakdown -- 6. The nineteenth century: liberalisation and reaction -- 7. Divorce as a social issue, 1850-1914 -- 8. Twentieth century and the rise of mass divorce -- 9. Explaining the rise of divorce, 1870-1990 -- Conclusion
Analysis Divorce
Divorce History
History
Overseas item
Notes "... Putting Asunder, of which the present book is a shorter version." - Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Divorce -- History.
Divorced people -- History.
LC no. 90025269
ISBN 0521423708