Rules: A Short History of What We Live by or will they need to

or will they need to get out of town

Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband

the more we notice our decline

who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants

Rules: A Short History of What We Live by or will they need toA panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the