Author: Stéphane Jettot

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 019286596X

Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories help us reconsider how ancestry and genealogy became objects of widespread commercialization in the 18th century. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate society, they can be used by historians to explore attitudes towards social status and political events.