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100 1 $aCannadine, David,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80121574
245 10 $aAspects of aristocracy :$bgrandeur and decline in modern Britain /$cDavid Cannadine.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c1994.
300 $ax, 321 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 2 $aIntroduction: Aspects of Aristocracy -- 1. The Making of the British Upper Classes -- 2. Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Nobility and Mobility in Modern Britain -- 4. Lord Curzon as Ceremonial Impressario -- 5. Lord Strickland: Imperial Aristocrat and Aristocratic Imperialist -- 6. Winston Churchill as an Aristocratic Adventurer -- 7. The Landowner as Millionaire: The Finances of the Dukes of Devonshire -- 8. Landowners, Lawyers and Litterateurs: The Cozens-Hardys of Letheringsett -- 9. Portrait of More Than a Marriage: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West Revisited -- Conclusion: Beyond the Country House -- App. A Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century -- App. B The Churchills -- App. C The Devonshires -- App. D The Cozens-Hardys -- App. E The Nicolsons and the Sackville-Wests.
520 $aIn 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, Harold Nicolson, and Vita Sackville-West, and changing our perceptions of them - transforming wastrels into heroes and the self-satisfied into the second-rate.
520 8 $aCannadine begins by investigating the land-owning classes as a whole during the last two hundred years, describing their origins, their habits, their increasing debts, and their involvement with the steam train, the horseless carriage, and the aeroplane.
520 8 $aHe next focuses on patricians he finds particularly fascinating: Lord Curzon, an unrivalled ceremonial impresario and inventor of traditions; Lord Strickland, part English landowner and part Mediterranean nobleman, who was both an imperial proconsul and prime minister of Malta; and Winston Churchill, whom Cannadine sees as an aristocratic adventurer, a man who was burdened by, more than he benefitted from, his family connections and patrician attitudes. Cannadine then moves from individuals to aristocratic dynasties.
520 8 $aHe 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.
520 8 $aWritten with sympathy and irony, devoid of snobbery or nostalgia, and handsomely illustrated, Cannadine's book is sure both to enlighten and delight.
650 0 $aAristocracy (Social class)$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aUpper class$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aNobility$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1789-1820.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056817
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