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Bettina Bradbury - Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal - 9780774819510 - V9780774819510
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Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

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Description for Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal Hardback. The diversity of women's lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 885.

In Wife to Widow, award-winning historian Bettina Bradbury explores the little-studied phenomenon of the transition from wife to widowhood to offer new insights into the law, politics, demography, religion, and domestic life of early nineteenth-century Montreal.

Bradbury's unique history spans the lives of two generations of Montreal women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 to reveal a picture of a city and its inhabitants across a period of profound change. Bradbury draws on a wealth of primary sources, weaving together biographies of individual women against a backdrop of the collective genealogies of over 500 , to ... Read more

A truly monumental study, Wife to Widow is an immensely readable, rigorous, and compelling examination of the significance of marriage and widowhood at a key moment in history.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774819510
SKU
V9780774819510
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Bettina Bradbury
Bettina Bradbury is an award-winning historian who teaches history and women's studies at York University.

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