Breaking the Ties That Bound : : The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia /

Breaking the Ties That Bound : : The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia / / Barbara Alpern Engel.

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Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Engel, Barbara Alpern,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2013
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 22 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Dates and Names
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Marriage and Its Discontents,
  • 1. The Ties That Bound
  • 2. Making Marriage: Romantic Ideals and Female Rhetoric
  • 3. Money Matters
  • 4. Disciplining Laboring Husbands
  • 5. Earning My Own Crust of Bread
  • 6. Cultivating Domesticity
  • 7. The Right to Love
  • 8. The Best Interests of the Child
  • Conclusion: The Politics of Marital Strife, 260
  • Appendix A. Archival Sources
  • Appendix B. Major Cases Used in the Book
  • Index

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