Andrea Mansker

Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book uses the unexplored history of commercial matchmakers, their novel marketing tactics, and the rise of personal advertisements to track the commercialization of courtship and marriage in nineteenth-century France"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 239mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9781501778063
• ISBN-10: 1501778064
• Artikelnr.: 71551478

Autorenporträt

Andrea Mansker is the David E. Underdown Professor of Modern European History at Sewanee: The University of the South. She is the author of Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France. Her research on matchmakers has appeared in Histoire, Économie & Société, French Historical Studies, and the Annales historiques de la Révolution française.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
"Marriages by the Petites affiches"
"Strange Destinies"
Seeking an Arranged Marriage
The Matrimonial Lottery
"The Trailblazing Founder of the MatchmakingProfession"
The Matrimonial Agent in the Courtroom
Conclusion