Author: CANNADINE, PROFESSOR DAVID
Title: Aspects of Aristocracy Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain
Description: Yale University Press, 1994. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300059817. Black hard boards / gilt lettering on spine. Near fine with black & white photos, graphs, notes, appendicies, & undexed. The DJ has rubbing to the cover and minor edgewear. "In this stylish and provocative book, the eminent historian David Cannadine brings his characterisitc 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. "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 321 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0300059817 Great Britain Upper Class Nobility History Europe


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