An Anglican Aristocracy: The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire 1832-1895 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198205944)

This account of nineteenth-century Carmarthenshire emphasizes the social and political dominance of the Anglican and landowning nobility and gentry for much of the period. Matthew Cragoe explores the nature and public roles of a governing 駘ite, arguing that their influence was not simply a function of their members' wealth or their control of local government and the administration of the law, but had a vital ideological dimension in the aristocracy's paternalistic ethic, which found powerful and practical expression in the 'moral economy' of the landed estate.

Author: Matthew Cragoe
ISBN-10: 0198205945
ISBN-13: 9780198205944
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 05/23/1996
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.50w x 0.94d