Elite families : class and power in nineteenth-century Boston
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Elite families : class and power in nineteenth-century Boston
（SUNY series in the sociology of work）
State University of New York Press, c1993
- : hard : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century. Farrell's study traces the kinship networks and overlapping business ties of the most economically prominent Brahmin families from the beginning of industrialization in the 1820s to the early twentieth century. Archival sources such as genealogies, family papers, and business records are used to address two issues of concern to those who study social stratification and the structure of power in industrializing societies: in what ways have traditional forms of social organization, such as kinship, been responsive to the social and economic changes brought by industrialization; and how active a role did an early economic elite play in shaping the direction of social change and in preserving its own group power and privilege over time.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Family and Economy
2. The Setting of Brahmin Boston
3. Kinship Networks and Economic Alliances
4. Kin-keeping and Marriage Ties: The Domestic Side of Kinship Networks
5. Patterns of Economic Continuity
6. Kinship and Class: Into the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Appendix: Genealogical Charts of the Lowells, Lawrences, Appletons, and Jacksons
Lowell Genealogy
Lawrence Genealogy
Appleton Genealogy
Jackson Genealogy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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