Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur And Decline in Modern Britain (Penguin history) - Softcover

Cannadine, David

 
9780140249538: Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur And Decline in Modern Britain (Penguin history)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140249532 ISBN 13: 9780140249538
Verlag: Penguin, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

In this collection of essays, David Cannadine starts with the birth of a truly British upper class between the 1780s and 1820s, when a comparatively small group of families consolidated their grip on the levers of wealth, power and prestige. This broad historical background explains the careers of people like Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India who became the great ceremonial impressario of the British Empire, and Winston Churchill, who, even in 1940, was widely regarded as a typical patrician adventurer. In considering some of the more famous aristocratic dynasties, Cannadine reconstructs the financial history of the dukes of Devonshire and offers his own assessment of Harold Nicholson and Vita Sackville-West. The text concludes with an attack on the way in which present aristocrates have managed to become subsidized guardians of their former stately homes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the editor of the National Dictionary of Biography. His major works include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and Mellon: An American Life. He is the general editor of two major series: The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe. At the Summit of the World? is his volume in the former series.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140249532
ISBN 13 
9780140249538
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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