Selling ancestry family directories and the commodification of genealogy in eighteenth-century Britain
IntroductionPART I: A WIDE RANGE OF DIRECTORIES AND THEIR READERS1: A Format for Every Use2: The Many Ways of Reading and SellingPART II: THE PUBLISHERS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS3: Hundreds of Customers: Looking for Some Common Patterns4: Family Ties and the Publishers' EnquiriesPART III: COMPILERS A...
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2023
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18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
> 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
> Genealogy
> Social aspects
> British & Irish history
> EDUCATION / General
> Europäische Geschichte
> Genealogie, Heraldik, Namen und Titel
> Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours
> HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
> HISTORY / Modern / General
> Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
> REFERENCE / Genealogy
> Social & cultural history
> Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
> Great Britain
> Großbritannien
> Genealogie
> Familienchronik
> Geschichte 1700-1800
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| Zusammenfassung: | IntroductionPART I: A WIDE RANGE OF DIRECTORIES AND THEIR READERS1: A Format for Every Use2: The Many Ways of Reading and SellingPART II: THE PUBLISHERS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS3: Hundreds of Customers: Looking for Some Common Patterns4: Family Ties and the Publishers' EnquiriesPART III: COMPILERS AND THE MAKING OF CREDIBLE NARRATIVES5: The Protagonists of a 'Shoddy Industry'6: The Keys to a Rewarding PosterityConclusionAppendices Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories help us reconsider how ancestry and genealogy became objects of widespread commercialization in the 18th century. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate society, they can be used by historians to explore attitudes towards social status and political events |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 386 Seiten Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß) 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780192865960 978-0-19-286596-0 |