Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century BostonThis 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. |
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Contents
FAMILY AND ECONOMY | 7 |
THE SETTING OF BRAHMIN BOSTON | 21 |
KINSHIP NETWORKS AND ECONOMIC ALLIANCES | 39 |
KINKEEPING AND MARRIAGE TIES THE DOMESTIC SIDE OF KINSHIP NETWORKS | 77 |
PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC CONTINUITY | 115 |
KINSHIP AND CLASS INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 153 |
CONCLUSION | 163 |
GENEALOGICAL CHARTS OF THE LOWELLS LAWRENCES APPLETONS AND JACKSONS | 169 |
LOWELL GENEALOGY | 170 |
LAWRENCE GENEALOGY | 173 |
APPLETON GENEALOGY | 176 |
JACKSON GENEALOGY | 177 |
NOTES | 179 |
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Page 2 - And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.
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| Title | Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston S U N Y SERIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS SUNY series in the sociology of work Suny Series in Religion, Culture, and Society |
| Author | Betty Farrell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0791415937, 9780791415931 |
| Length | 229 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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