Publication

1985 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

104,250 words, Guess

Page Count

417 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivegoverninghearths00gros
  • ISBN-100807816469
  • ISBN-100807816477
  • ISBN-139780807816462
  • ISBN-139780807816479
and 5 more
  • Goodreads3811924
  • Library of Congress Control Number84022107
  • OCLC Control Number11398227
  • Better World Books9780807816462
  • Open LibraryOL2859386M

Classifications

  • DDC346.7301/5/09
  • DDC347.3061509
  • LCCKF505 .G76 1985
and 1 more
  • LCCKF505.G76 1985

First Sentence

The "foundation of national morality must be laid in private families," declared Revolutionary lawyer and future president John Adams in 1778.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in legal history

Other Editions

  • Governing the hearth: law and the family in nineteenth-century AmericaUniversity of North Carolina Press1985-01-01

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