Elites

Choice, Leadership and Succession
Herausgeber: de Pina-Cabral, João; Pedroso de Lima, Antónia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781859733998
• ISBN-10: 1859733999
• Artikelnr.: 20966655

Autorenporträt

João de Pina-Cabral University of Lisbon Antónia Pedroso de Lima University of Lisbon

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Dynastic Sentiments I The Deep Legacies of Dynastic Subjectivity:
The Resonances of a Famous Family Identity in Private and Public Spheres 2
'How Did I Become a Leader in My Family Firm?' Assets for Succession in
Contemporary Lisbon Financial Elites 3 Patriarchal Desire: Law and
Sentiments of Succession in Italian Capitalist Families Part II Choice and
Tradition 4 Elite Succession among the Matrilineal Akan of Ghana 5
'Tradition' versus 'Politics': Succession Conflicts in a Chiefdom of
North-western Ghana, 6 Making the Chief: An Examination of Why Fijian
Chiefs Have To Be Elected Part III House and Heir 7 Aristocratic Succession
in Portugal (From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries) 8 Family,
Power and Property: Ascendancy and Decline of a Rural Elite Part IV
Monopolies and Enclaves, 9 Re-serving Succession in a British Enclave 10
How Do the Macanese Achieve Collective Action? 11 Uncanny Success: Some
Closing Remarks