{"product_id":"polygamy-sarah-m-s-pearsall-9780300226843","title":"Polygamy: An Early American History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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., \u003ci\u003eJournal of Law and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, Indigenous communities, and segments of the American nation. Polygamy--as well as the fight against it--illuminates many touchstones of American history: the Pueblo Revolt and other uprisings against the Spanish; Catholic missions in New France; New England settlements and King Philip's War; the entrenchment of African slavery in the Chesapeake; the Atlantic Enlightenment; the American Revolution; missions and settlement in the West; and the rise of Mormonism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pearsall expertly opens up broader questions about monogamy's emergence as the only marital option, tracing the impact of colonial events on property, theology, feminism, imperialism, and the regulation of sexuality. She shows that heterosexual monogamy was never the only model of marriage in North America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah M. S. Pearsall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300226845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300226843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/26\/2019 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2020","brand":"Sarah M. S. Pearsall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981541933311,"sku":"9780300226843","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6207f8f2-20c5-4723-ac62-2dac6f2d8874.jpg?v=1683256182","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/polygamy-sarah-m-s-pearsall-9780300226843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}