Selling ancestry : family directories and the commodification of genealogy in eighteenth century Britain / Stéphane Jettot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jettot, Stéphane, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genealogy--Great Britain--History.

Genealogy.

Great Britain--Genealogy--Directories--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees), and began to reach a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies. From the first Peerage in 1709 to the guidebooks of Debrett's and Burke's in the 1830s, Stéphane Jettot offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of these hybrid products - a combination of court almanacs, county histories, and town directories.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Jettot, Stéphane Selling Ancestry

ISBN:

0-19-195669-4

0-19-269073-6

0-19-269074-4