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Footnotes to History: The Personal Realm of John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (18091830), a Group Family
Nigel Harris
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Description for Footnotes to History: The Personal Realm of John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (18091830), a Group Family
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
This book brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" -- an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. The size of this "group family" gave ample scope for marriages between cousins. ... Read more
This book brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" -- an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. The size of this "group family" gave ample scope for marriages between cousins. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
491g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197469
SKU
V9781845197469
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99-50
About Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris is a former senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and a direct descendant both of Croker's father-in-law, Consul William Pennell and of his wife's most scandalous niece, Rosina.
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