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Aspects of aristocracy : grandeur and decline in modern Britain /

In this stylish and provocative book, the eminent historian David Cannadine brings his characteristic wit and acumen to bear on the British aristocracy, probing behind the legendary escapades and indulgences of aristocrats such as Lord Curzon, the Hon. C.S. Rolls (of Rolls Royce), Winston Churchill,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cannadine, David, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
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505 0 |a Introduction : Aspects of aristocracy -- The making of the British upper classes -- Aristocratic indebtedness in the nineteenth century -- Nobility and mobility in modern Britain -- Lord Curzon as ceremonial impressario -- Lord Strickland : imperial aristocrat and aristocratic imperialist -- Winston Churchill as an aristocratic adventurer -- The landowner as millionaire : the finances of the Dukes of Devonshire -- Landowners, lawyers and litterateurs : the Cozens-Hardys of Letheringsett -- Portrait of more than a marriage : Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West revisited -- Conclusion : Beyond the country house. 
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