Incest & influence : the private life of bourgeois England

Incest & influence : the private life of bourgeois England /

From the Publisher: Like 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. Incest and Influence shows us...

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Main Author: Kuper, Adam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009
Subjects:
Consanguinity > England > History > 19th century.
Cross-cousin marriage > England > History > 19th century.
Incest > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Domestic relations > England > History > 19th century.
Middle class > England > History > 19th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > England > History > 19th century.
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