Date 14 January 2009
Pages 436
Format cm 16 x 24
Price € 49.50
EAN 9782713221644
Publisher Website www.editions.ehess.fr

Chronicle of upward mobility

The use of family networks among the Great Officers of the XVI-XVII centuries
Publisher Éditions EHESS
COLLECTION En temps & lieux
A history of the individual between lineage, family and kinship.

How does a family build its economic power? This vast family saga is not only an exemplary chronicle of the rise and fall of a line of great officers belonging to France's elite, but also analyses the nature of family networks. With a three-dimensional approach of micro-history, genealogy and anthropology, it plunges into the sociopsychological dynamics of family in days gone by.