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The Making of a Ruling Class

Paperback • 2002 • English

The Making of a Ruling Class

By Philip Jenkins

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This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by common attitudes, social outlook, living standards and educational patterns. The author provides a synthesis of social, economic and political changes in the year...Show more

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9780521521949

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

The Making of a Ruling Class

Format

Paperback

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