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The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914. Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities.
Dalia Leinarte
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Hardback. Num Pages: 178 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This case study reveals how under often restrictive laws and policies – serfdom up to 1861, and the pervasive role of the Church, in addition to deep-rooted customary practices – women and men manage to ... Read more
This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire. It uncovers the way a peasant community employed unsanctioned marital behaviour, such as cohabitation and bigamy, among others, in order to respond to the external factors that had an impact on the family life, including transmission of inheritance and household structure. Lithuania was part of the Tsarist Empire until 1914. This case study reveals how under often restrictive laws and policies – serfdom up to 1861, and the pervasive role of the Church, in addition to deep-rooted customary practices – women and men manage to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319510811
SKU
V9783319510811
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Ref
99-15
About Dalia Leinarte
Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, and a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is a Chairperson of the UN CEDAW Committee. Leinarte is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970.
Reviews for The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914. Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities.
This book was awarded the AABS Book Prize Honorable Mention 2018 by The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS). “In its consideration of this book, the committee described it as “distinguished by the methodological diversity. [Parts of the book] present a microscopic view evaluating the subjective range of motives and perceptions of intelligentsia or ... Read more