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Title: Untying the Knot: A Short History of Divorce
Author: PHILLIPS RODERICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/06/1991
Imprint: CANTO
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active
The rapid spread of divorce since the 1960s has dramatically affected family life in Western society. Extensive research has been devoted to this recent period of change, and yet the long-term history of divorce has remained surprisingly obscure. Roderick Phillips, author of the highly acclaimed magisterial history of divorce, Putting Asunder, has now abridged his fascinating and wide-ranging study for a general readership. Encompassing religious and secular attitudes to divorce, the evolution of divorce laws, and changing responses to marriage breakdown, Untying the Knot offers a highly readable and thought-provoking history of the phenomenon, placed illuminatingly against a variety of social, economic, political and cultural backgrounds.
Series: Canto original series
ISBN: 9780521423700
Weight: 360g
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm
Pages: 280