What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives

by David Peterson del Mar

Book Overview

It was 1869 and Sarah Moses, with "a very black eye," told her father: The world will never know what trouble I have seen. What she'd seen was violence at the hands of her husband. Does the world know any more of such things today than it did in Sarah's time?

Sarah, it so happens, lived in Oregon, that Edenic state on the Pacific Coast, and it is here that David Peterson del Mar centers his history of violence against wives. What...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067495078X
• ISBN13: 9780674950788
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"