Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England

by Adam Kuper

Book Overview

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 just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans--in finance and industry,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035895
• ISBN13: 9780674035898
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"