{"product_id":"incest-and-influence-adam-kuper-9780674035898","title":"Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIncest and Influence\u003c\/i\u003e shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans--in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life. In a richly detailed narrative, Kuper deploys his expertise as an anthropologist to analyze kin marriages among the Darwins and Wedgwoods, in Quaker and Jewish banking families, and in the Clapham Sect and their descendants over four generations, ending with a revealing account of the Bloomsbury Group, the most eccentric product of English bourgeois endogamy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese marriage strategies were the staple of novels, and contemporaries were obsessed with them. But there were concerns. Ideas about incest were in flux as theological doctrines were challenged. For forty years Victorian parliaments debated whether a man could marry his deceased wife's sister. Cousin marriage troubled scientists, including Charles Darwin and his cousin Francis Galton, provoking revolutionary ideas about breeding and heredity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Kuper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674035895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674035898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.82w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2010","brand":"Adam Kuper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44128510869759,"sku":"9780674035898","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc2f0322-2d38-4f9d-868e-a6324f64f4e2.jpg?v=1687459022","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/incest-and-influence-adam-kuper-9780674035898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}