TY  - GEN
T1  - Aspects of aristocracy : grandeur and decline in modern Britain
A1  - Cannadine, David, 1950-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1012558374
AB  - 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, Harold Nicolson, and Vita Sackville-West, and changing our perceptions of them - transforming wastrels into heroes and the self-satisfied into the second-rate. Cannadine 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. He 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. 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. Written with sympathy and irony, devoid of snobbery or nostalgia, and handsomely illustrated, Cannadine's book is sure both to enlighten and delight.
CN  - HT653.G7 C357 1994eb
SN  - 9780300236156
SN  - 0300236158
SN  - 0300059817
SN  - 9780300059816
KW  - Churchill : Familie
KW  - Strickland : Familie
KW  - Aristocracy (Social class) : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Upper class : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Nobility : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Great Britain : History : 1789-1820.
KW  - Aristocratie : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire.
KW  - Classes supérieures : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire.
KW  - Noblesse : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire.
KW  - Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 1789-1820.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Great Britain.
KW  - Aristocracy (Social class)
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Upper class
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Adel
KW  - Aristokratie
KW  - Biografie
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Oberschicht
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Adel.
KW  - 1789-1820
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -