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Buying a bride : an engaging history of mail-order matches / Marcia A. Zug.
LIBRA HQ802 .Z84 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zug, Marcia A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mail order brides--United States--History.
- Mail order brides.
- Marriage brokerage--United States--History.
- Marriage brokerage.
- Marriage--United States--History.
- Marriage.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part I When Mail-Order Brides Were Heroes
- 1 Lonely Colonist Seeks Wife 11
- 2 The Filles du Roi 30
- 3 Corrections Girls and Casket Girls 47
- 4 Well Disposed toward the Ladies: Mail-Order Brides Go West 63
- Part II Mail-Order Marriage Acquires a Bad Reputation
- 5 Advertising for Love: The Rise of Matrimonial Advertisements 107
- 6 Wanted-Correspondence 133
- 7 Marriage at the Border 157
- 8 Mail-Order Feminism 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814771815
- 0814771815
- 9781479882830
- 1479882836
- OCLC:
- 926743402
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