Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

Name: Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
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ISBN: 9780375703683

ISBN-10: 0375703683

ISBN-13: 9780375703683

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Authors: David Cannadine

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"A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change." --The New York Times "No praise can be too high." --The New York Review of Books At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige, and political significance. Deftly orchestrating an enormous array of documents and letters, facts, and statistics, David Cannadine shows how this shift came about--and how it was reinforced in the…

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.95" long x 1.85" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface to the Vintage Edition


Preface to the 1992 Edition


List of Abbreviations


A Note on Sources



Prologue: Presuppositions and Problems



The Embattled Elite



The Decline and Dispersal of Territorial Wealth



The Erosion of Local Control



The Eclipse of a Senatorial Order



The Demise of Patrician Professionals



The 'Corruption' of Public Life



The Dilution of Select Society



From Leisured Class to Labouring Aristocracy



Lost Causes and Disappointed Hopes



The Politics of Paranoia



The Reconstruction of Social Prestige



The Second World War



The End of the Affair



Epilogue: Perceptions and Perspectives



The Greatest British Landowners, c. 1880



Patrician Members of British Cabinets, 1880-1980



Senior Posts in the Foreign and Diplomatic Services



Titled Company Directors, 1896 and 1920



Patrician Mayors of British Towns, 1880-1945



Chancellors of British Universities, 1880-1945



Viceroys of India and Governors-General of British Dominions



Patterns of Estate Ownership, 1876-1976


Notes


Index