Good Families of Barcelona : : A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era / / Gary Wray McDonogh.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1986
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 471
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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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