Kinship and Capitalism

This study reconstructs the lives of urban business families during England's emergence as a world economic power.

List of contents

Tables; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes; Preface; Introduction: models and myths; Part I. Marriage: 1. Making a match; 2. Husbands and wives; 3. Widowers and widows; Part II. The Business Family: 4. Parents and children; 5. Adulthood and old age; 6. Kin and community; Part III. The Family Business: 7. Men in business; 8. Women in business; 9. Inheritance and advancement; Conclusion: capitalism and the life cycle; Appendices; Sources; Index.

Summary

This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad cross-section of archival sources, it tests the orthodox view that the family as an institution was transformed by capitalism and individualism.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Grassby
• Assisted by: Lee H. Hamilton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780521782036
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78203-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 999 g
• Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries