Polygamy: An Early American History

by Sarah M. S. Pearsall and Sarah M.S. Pearsall

A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America

"A richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in American from ca. 1500 to 1900."--John Witte Jr., Journal of Law and Religion

Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300226845
• ISBN13: 9780300226843
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"