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Good Families of Barcelona: A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era
By (Author) Gary Wray McDonogh
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.523094672
Paperback
280
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
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 c