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Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
Incest and Influence The Private Life of Bourgeois England
Author: Adam Kuper
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-centu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674035898
ISBN-10: 0674035895
Publication Date: 10/30/2009
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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