Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain by Taylor, A.

Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403932211)

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Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain by Taylor, A.

Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain

$54.99
Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain by Taylor, A.

Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Flamboyant, cultured and refined, aristocracy is often seen as a national treasure. Lords of Misrule takes a different view and considers the role of an aristocracy behaving badly. This is a book about the political, social and moral failings of aristocracy and the ways in which they have featured in political rhetoric. Drawing on the views of critics of aristocracy, it explores the dark side of power without responsibility. Less 'patrician paragons' than dissolute and debauched debtors, the aristocrats featured here undermined, rather than augmented, the fabric of national life. For the first time, Lords of Misrule recaptures the views of those radicals and reformers who were prepared to contemplate a Britain without aristocrats.

Author: A. Taylor
ISBN-10: 1403932212
ISBN-13: 9781403932211
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2004
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.78h x 6.42w x 0.76d
By A. Taylor
By A. Taylor
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ANTONY TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has written widely in the field of Nineteenth Century politics, and is author of Down with the Crown: British Anti-monarchism and Debates about Royalty since 1790 (Reaktion, 1999).

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