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<DIV>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.<BR><BR>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 airplane. He next focuses on patricians he finds particularly fascinating: Lord Curzon, an unrivaled 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 benefited from his family connections and patrician attitudes. Cannadine then moves

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Author

David Cannadine

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300059816

Category

nonfiction