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Michelle Lamarche Marrese - A Woman´s Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861 - 9780801439117 - V9780801439117
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A Woman´s Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861

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Description for A Woman´s Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861 Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSJ1; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.

In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Historians have often dismissed women's property rights as meaningless. In the patriarchal society ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801439117
SKU
V9780801439117
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Michelle Lamarche Marrese
Michelle Lamarche Marrese is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for A Woman´s Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861
This excellent book opens up the possibility of some fascinating comparisons. It illustrates, for example, how in comparison to the rest of Europe, Russia was both less bourgeois and less aristocratic.... Historians will note with interest Michelle Marrese's conclusion that female property rights were a uniquely Russian but by no means ancient phenomenon, and that they were indeed, as their ... Read more

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