• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• List of Illustrations,
• List of Tables,
• Preface,
• A Note on Names and Transcriptions,
• Chapter I. Introduction,
• Chapter II. Barcelona in Historical Perspective,
• Chapter III. Family and Variation in Catalonia,
• Chapter IV. La Casa Industrial: Household and Company in the Industrial Elite,
• Chapter V. From Family to Oligarchy: The Cohesion of Economic Power,
• Chapter VI. Pigs And Gentlemen: The Education of an Elite,
• Chapter VII. Commercium and Connubium,
• Chapter VIII. The Family and the City: Power and the Creation of Cultural Imagery,
• Chapter IX. Family, Agency, and Networks of Power: Towards a Comparative Understanding of Elites,
• Bibliography,
• Index,

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.
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