This publication offers a global perspective on the modern history of marriage. It unites legal, political and social history, and seeks to draw out commonalities and differences by exploring connections through empire, international law and international migration. Table of contents: Part I: Marriage and Forms of the Family: 1. From Liberalism to Human Dignity: The Transformation of Marriage and Family Rights in Brazil, 1822-2013 / Sueann Caulfield: 2. From Toleration to Prosecution: Concubinage and the Law in Modern China / Lisa Tran: 3. The Birth of Mistresses and Bastards: A History of Marriage in Siam (Thailand) / Tamara Loos: 4. Royal Marriage in Europe: An Inherently Conservative System / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly: Part II: Marriage, Religion and the State: 5. 'Til death do you part': Catholicism, Marriage and Culture War in Austria(-Hungary) / Ulrike Harmat: 6. Modernizing Marriage in Egypt, Kenneth M. Cuno: 7. 'A Babel of Law': Hindu Marriage, Global Spaces and Intimate Subjects in Late Nineteenth-Century India / Leigh Denault: 8. English Exports: Invoking the Common Law of Marriage across the Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Rebecca Probert: Part III: Marriage, Kinship and Community: 9. Finding the Ordinary in the Extraordinary: Marriage Norms and Bigamy in Canada / Mélanie Méthot: 10. Equality before the Law? The Intermarriage Debate in Post-Nazi Germany / Julia Woesthoff: 11. Customary and Civil Marriage Law and the Question of Gender Equality in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Gabon and Africa / Rachel Jean-Baptiste.