 | Good Families of Barcelona: A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era Subjects: ELITE (SOCIAL SCIENCES) -- SPAIN -- BARCELONA -- HISTORY; BARCELONA (SPAIN) -- SOCIAL CONDITIONS; KINSHIP -- SPAIN -- BARCELONA -- HISTORY; POWER (SOCIAL SCIENCES) -- HISTORY; 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 have dominated the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
