Good Families of Barcelona: A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era

by Gary W. McDonogh

Gary McDonogh combines ethnology and history to analyze the organization, reproduction, and decline of an urban industrial elite. Using Barcelona as the foundation for more general consideration of power-holding groups, he tells the story of the Good Families," those few hundred lineages who have dominated the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1986.

282 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Dr. McDonogh is the Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor and Department Chair at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA.