Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law

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Richard H. Chused examines more than 1300 petitions for divorce in Maryland filed all the way through the primary half of the nineteenth century. By weaving in combination information at the legislative handling of those petitions, the voting patterns of the state legislators, and the judicial remedy of related disputes, Chused shows the connections between politics, regional differences, and the improvement of American circle of relatives law. His analysis also provides valuable insights into the social history of the time, a period when traditional Southern circle of relatives values were at odds with the more up to date values led to by urbanization.

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