Philip Jenkins, Jenkins Philip

The Making of a Ruling Class

The Glamorgan Gentry 1640 1790

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the formation of a new ruling class in the years prior to British industrialisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521521949
• ISBN-10: 0521521947
• Artikelnr.: 21727706

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and tables
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
General introduction
Part I. Social and Economic Structure: Introduction
1. Land and people
2. The gentry
3. Economic development
Conclusion to Part I
Part II. Local and National Politics: Introduction
4. Law and order
5. Political history 1640-1688: the heroic age
6. Political history 1688-1790: the new order
Conclusion to Part II
Part III. Society and Culture: Introduction
7. The idea of a gentleman
8. Education and culture
9. The spread of metropolitan standards
Conclusion to Part III: 'conspicuous antiquity'
Aftermath: towards the Victorian world
Conclusion: from Civil War to Industrial Revolution
Appendices
Notes
Index.