Good Families of Barcelona : A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era /

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Gary McDonogh combines ethnology and history to analyze the organization, reproduction, and decline of an urban industrial elite. Using Barcelona as the foundation for more general consideration of power-holding groups, he tells the story of the Good Families," those few hundred lineages who ha...

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Main Author: McDonogh, Gary W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1986]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Power (Social sciences)
Kinship.
Elite (Social sciences)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Parente > Espagne > Barcelone > Histoire.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Espagne > Barcelone > Histoire.
Power (Social sciences) > History.
Kinship > Spain > Barcelona > History.
Elite (Social sciences) > Spain > Barcelona > History.
Spain > Barcelona.
Barcelona (Spain) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • A Note on Names and Transcriptions
  • Chapter I. Introduction
  • Chapter II. Barcelona in Historical Perspective
  • Chapter III. Family and Variation in Catalonia
  • Chapter IV. La Casa Industrial: Household and Company in the Industrial Elite
  • Chapter V. From Family to Oligarchy: The Cohesion of Economic Power
  • Chapter VI. Pigs And Gentlemen: The Education of an Elite
  • Chapter VII. Commercium and Connubium
  • Chapter VIII. The Family and the City: Power and the Creation of Cultural Imagery
  • Chapter IX. Family, Agency, and Networks of Power: Towards a Comparative Understanding of Elites
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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