{"product_id":"elite-families-betty-g-farrell-9780791415948","title":"Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Betty G. Farrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791415945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791415948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs","brand":"Betty G. Farrell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096722252031,"sku":"9780791415948","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/elite-families-betty-g-farrell-9780791415948","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}