The article reviews the books "Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage & Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States" by Kristin Celello and "More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss" by Rebecca L. Davis.

Rev. of A Happy Holiday: English-Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930 by Cecilia Morgan

"This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, m...

Rev. of Making up the State: Women in 20th-century Atlantic Canada by Janet Guildford and Suzanne Morton.

Its pastoral landscape has long permeated Prince Edward Island’ s tourist appeal and shaped its cultural identity. Nineteenth-century tourist promotion extolled the health benefits of sea breezes for travellers fleeing the summer swelter of urban America but, by the interwar period, tourism litera...

The article presents a case study of a medical research mission to Moscow in the Soviet Union in 1946. It describes a mission undertaken by U.S. marriage and family counselor Emily Hartshorne Mudd to Moscow with American-Soviet Medical Society (ASMS) business manager Robert Leslie and Mudd's husband...

Rev. of Migration and Empire by Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine

An essential new reference work covering all aspects of European history, society, and culture from AD 500 to 1500.