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Entitled

Author : Chris Bryant
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473525519
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Entitled written by Chris Bryant and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary Beard) Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination. In telling their history, Entitled introduces a cast of extraordinary characters: fierce warriors, rakish dandies, political dilettantes, charming eccentrics, arrogant snobs and criminals who quite literally got away with murder.

Aristocrats

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748125329
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Aristocrats written by Lawrence James and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James also illuminates how the aristocracy's infatuation with classical art has forged our heritage, how its love of sport has shaped our pastimes and values - and how its scandals have entertained the public. Impeccably researched, balanced and brilliantly entertaining, ARISTOCRATS is an enthralling history of power, influence and an extraordinary knack for survival.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aspects of Aristocracy

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300059816
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.

Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890

Author : Peter Pagnamenta
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393072398
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890 written by Peter Pagnamenta and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.

The British Aristocracy

Author : Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The British Aristocracy written by Mark Bence-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000

Author : K. Schutte
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137327804
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 by : K. Schutte

Download or read book Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 written by K. Schutte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

The World Before Domesday

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441121188
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The World Before Domesday written by Ann Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Williams' important new book discusses the dynamics of English aristocratic society in a way that has not been explored before. She investigates the rewards and obligations of status including birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and administrative business. This period saw the birth of a 'lesser aristocracy', the ancestors of the English gentry, the power-house of society and politics in the late medieval and early modern periods. Going on to examine the obligations and rewards of lordship and the relations between lords and their men, Williams illustrates how status was displayed and covers the importance of the manorial house, which was at once a home, an estate centre and a symbol of authority and the insignia of rank in weaponry, clothing and personal adornment. The growing gap between the highest rank of society and the lowest, fuelled by underlying economic developments is also covered. In conclusion she considers some of the occupations which symbolized and perpetuated lordly power. Though the upper levels of aristocratic society were swept away by the Norman settlement, the 'lesser aristocracy' had a much higher rate of survival and it was this group who began the manorialization of English society, familiar from the late medieval period.

The Husband Hunters

Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250164613
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Husband Hunters written by Anne de Courcy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known 'Dollar Princess', married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.

The Image of Aristocracy

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977948
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Image of Aristocracy written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.

English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century

Author : F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415412858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century written by F. M. L. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780375703683
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change." --The New York Times 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 aftermath of the Second World War. Astonishingly learned, lucidly written, and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history.

The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134751419
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages written by Chris Given-Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Four things dominated the life of the mediaeval noble: warfare, politics, land and family. It is with these central themes that this book is concerned. It encompasses the whole of the upper segment of the late medieval society; examines the relation of social status and political influence; describes the noble household and council; examines in detail the territorial and familial policies pursued by great landholders; emphasises the inter-relationship of local and national affairs; is arranged thematically, making it ideal for student use and has implications for the whole medieval period.

Aspects of Aristocracy

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300059817
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.

In Defence of Aristocracy

Author : Peregrine Worsthorne
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0007550995
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Aristocracy written by Peregrine Worsthorne and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial and hotly discussed book, Sir Peregrine presents a reactionary and playful look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy.

Making Aristocracy Work

Author : Andrew Adonis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Making Aristocracy Work written by Andrew Adonis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political role and activities of the peerage both inside and outside Parliament, the late 19th and early 20th century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how its members were able to justify themselves by their work.

In the Family Way

Author : Judith Schneid Lewis
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Family Way written by Judith Schneid Lewis and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published. Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.