Transnational Coupling in the Age of Nation Making during the 19th and 20th Centuries

<p><em>Transnational Coupling in the Age of Nation Making during the 19th and 20th Centuries</em> examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Departing from state-centered studies of marriage law it draws on the methodologies of transnational history cultural history and the history of emotion to show that these unions were part of a broader pattern of the larger cultural love affair between the two societies.</p>