Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… wider issues. 2 . On the crucial exchanges between publishers and families, see Stéphane Jettot, ‘Family input in the making of London genealogical directories in the 18th century’, Genealogical Knowledge in the Making. Tools, Practices, and Evidence in Early Modern Europe, V. Bauer, F. Markus, J. Eickmeyer (eds.) (Oldenbourg-De … were very familiar to the public, they were mostly only mentioned in passing. Their commercial appeal raised several kinds of anxieties about the decline of traditional values or conversely the predatory behaviour of aristocrats, which …
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