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Title: eminently readable and informative
Review: Kristin Gager's Blood Ties and Fictive Ties is a remarkably detailed and readable account of French historical strategies as regards adoptions (most especially when dealing with the way in which the post-revolutionary government attempted to create cross-class adoption strategies). She also includes samples of adoption contracts that clearly lay out the rights and duties of the participants. Ms. Gager knows what she is talking about and enjoys what she does-- that enjoyment is contagious.
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