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The gentry

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An edition of Gentry (2012)

The gentry

stories of the English

Large print ed.

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  • 3 Want to read

It is the gentry that have made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on their land, in their locality, with a healthy interest in turning a profit from their property and a deep distrust of the centralised state. This riveting new book concentrates on fourteen families with a time-span from 1400 to the present day; The Gentry presents a convincing argument on what has created the distinctive English character but with the sheer readability ofan epic novel.

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W.F. Howes, Clipper Large Print
Language
English
Pages
580

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Gentry, Landowners, Genealogy, History, Gentry, great britain, Great britain, genealogy

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England
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Cover of: Gentry
Gentry: six hundred years of a peculiarly English class
2012, HarperPress, HarperCollins Publishers
in English - HarperPress pbk. ed.
Cover of: The gentry
The gentry: stories of the English
2012, W.F. Howes, Clipper Large Print
in English - Large print ed.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Ungently gentles
Part I: Inherited world 1410-1520 (1410s-1520s: Survival: the Plumptons, Plumpton, Yorkshire)
Part II: In the Renaissance state 1520-1610 (1520s-1580s: Discretion : the Throckmortons, Coughton, Warwickshire ; 1580s-1610s: Control : the Thynnes, Oxford, Beaconsfield, Wiltshire, Shropshire and London)
Part III: The great century 1610-1710 (1610s-1650s: Steadiness: the Oglanders, Nunwell, Isle of Wight ; 1630s-1660s: Withdrawal: the Oxindens, Denton, Kent ; 1660s-1710s: Honour: the le Neves, Great Witchingham, Norfolk)
Part IV: Atlantic domains 1710-1790 (1710s-1750s: Dominance: the Lascelles, Yorkshire, Barbados, Richmond and London ; 1730s-1790s: Courage : the Pinckneys, Wappoo and Charleston, South Carolina, and Richmond, Surrey)
Part V: The failing vision: 1790-1910 (1790s-1840s: Fecklessness : the Capels, London, Brussels and Lausanne ; 1780s-1915: Fantasy: the Hugheses, Kinmel, Denbighshire and Grosvenor Square, London)
Part VI: The after-life 1910-2010 (1890s-1950s: Renunciation: the Aclands, Killerton, Devon and Holnicote, Somerset ; 1950s-2010s: Continuity : the Cliffords, Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire)
Conclusion: Return of the native.

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Originally published : London : HarperPress, 2011.

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Rearsby [England]
Series
Clipper large print, Clipper large print
Copyright Date
2011

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Dewey Decimal Class
942.008621

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Pagination
xxviii, 580 pages (large print)
Number of pages
580

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32787181M
Internet Archive
gentrystoriesofe0000nico
ISBN 10
1407496832
ISBN 13
9781407496832
OCLC/WorldCat
781113877

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Covers the history of the English landed gentry over a six-hundred year period between 1410-2010.

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