Reconstructing the Household
Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
By Peter W. Bardaglio
382 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 8 tables, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4712-1
Published: March 1998 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-6021-2
Published: November 2000 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6978-4
Published: November 2000
Studies in Legal History
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Awards & distinctions
1996 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
About the Author
Peter W. Bardaglio is associate professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"Bardaglio has succeeded in writing a book that asks important questions, poses thoughtful answers, and raises a host of issues for future researchers to explore. This book will join a handful of others as indispensable to the study of southern regionalism and the legal history of the American family."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Should establish a model for future studies of the southern household."--Southern Quarterly
"[A] readable and rewarding book."--Journal of American History
"An ambitious and provocative book. . . one that offers fresh ways of thinking about the South's legal system and culture, the decision for secession, the larger implications of Reconstruction, the roots of southern Progressivism, and the enduring differences between the South and the North."--Choice
"[Bardaglio] has given coherence and heft to previously scattered facts and interpretations and produced a work that should be required reading among historians of the family, sexuality, and the South."--Journal of the History of Sexuality
"With its exceptional command of the primary sources and extraordinary facility with the relevant secondary literature, Peter W. Bardaglio's Reconstructing the Household is a signal contribution to legal history, the history of the family, and the study of southern race relations."--Journal of Social History