Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction - Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (Professor of History, Professor, Robinson Col
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For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy, or plural marriage, has long been an accepted form of union in human societies, involving people living on every continent. In Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah M. S. Pearsall explores what plural marriages reveal about the inner workings of marriage, the controversies surrounding it in the LDS (Mormon) Church, and how polygamous domestic and sexual relationships have influenced larger dynamics of power, gender, rank, race, and religion in societies all over the world.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy, or plural marriage, has long been an accepted form of union in human societies, involving people living on every continent. In Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah M. S. Pearsall explores what plural marriages reveal about the inner workings of marriage, the controversies surrounding it in the LDS (Mormon) Church, and how polygamous domestic and sexual relationships have influenced larger dynamics of power, gender, rank, race, and religion in societies all over the world.
Autorenporträt
Sarah M. S. Pearsall is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and previously taught early American and Atlantic history at Cambridge University, where she was a fellow of Robinson College. Her work on marriages and families has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the British Academy. She is the author of Polygamy An Early American History.