Footnotes to History: The Personal Realm of John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (1809-1830), a Group Family

by Nigel Harris

Book Overview

This book brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" -- an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845197461
• ISBN13: 9781845197469
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"