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Building and Breaking Families in the American West (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture)
Building and Breaking Families in the American West - Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
Author: Glenda Riley
This book is the first cultural interpretation of why marriages dissolve so frequently in the West, which has had the highest divorce rate in the world since the 1870s. Riley devotes separate chapters to the life cycle of relationships—courtship, the factors influencing marriage, the difficulties of intermarrying, and the dissolving of unio...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780826317209
ISBN-10: 0826317200
Publication Date: 10/1996
Pages: 204
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Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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