{"product_id":"road-to-divorce-england-1530-1987-9780198226512","title":"Road to Divorce: England, 1530-1987","description":"Lawrence Stone is one of the world's foremost historians. In such widely acclaimed volumes as \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis of the Aristocracy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Family, Sex and Marriage in England\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Open Society\u003c\/em\u003e, he has shown himself to be a provocative and engaging writer as well as a master chronicler of English family life. Now, with \u003cem\u003eRoad to Divorce\u003c\/em\u003e, Stone examines the complex ways in which English men and women have used, twisted, and defied the law to deal with marital breakdown.\u003cbr\u003e Despite the infamous divorce of Henry VIII in 1529, Britons before the 20th century were predominantly, in Stone's words, a non-divorcing and non-separating society. In fact, before divorce was legalized in 1857, England was the only Protestant country with virtually no avenue for divorce on the grounds of adultery, desertion, or cruelty. Yet marriages did fail, and in \u003cem\u003eRoad to Divorce\u003c\/em\u003e, Stone examines a goldmine of court records--in which witnesses speak freely about love, sex, adultery, and marriage--memoirs, correspondence, and popular imaginative works to reveal how lawyers and the laity coped with marital discord. Equally important, in tracing the history of divorce, Stone has discovered a way to recapture the slow, irregular, and tentative evolution of moral values concerning relations between the sexes as well as the consequent shift from concepts of patriarchy to those of sexual equality. He thus offers a privileged, indeed almost unique, insight into the interaction of the public spheres of morality, religion, and the law.\u003cbr\u003e Written by the foremost historian of family life, \u003cem\u003eRoad to Divorce\u003c\/em\u003e provides the first full study of a topic rich in historical interest and contemporary importance, one that offers astonishingly frank and intimate insights into our ancestors' changing views about what makes and breaks a marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.55h x 6.48w x 1.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198226512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLawrence Stone\u003c\/strong\u003e is Dodge Professor of History, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932086354035,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a310fea9-1bba-455e-988b-3f5257d0ccac.jpg?v=1647789324","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/road-to-divorce-england-1530-1987-9780198226512","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}