Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain 1884-1914 Hardcover - 1993
by Andrew Adonis
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Making Aristocracy Work explores the political role of the British peerage in the thirty years before the First World War. It charts its transition from ruling class to embattled faction, analysing the response of the peers to the challenge of democracy and their impact on the constitutional order which emerged from the turbulent politics of the late Victorian and Edwardian era. The book opens with a study of the House of Lords, assessing its strengths and weaknesses as a political institution and offering new interpretations of the constitutional crises of 1884-5 and 1909-11. It proceeds to assess the wider activity of the peerage in national, local, and imperial government, and the changing nature of its mentalite as a political elite. The evolution of the peerage is no simplistic story of descent from power to impotence, argues Dr Adonis. Under Lord Salisbury, the peers met challenges to their political standing with a determination to refashion their authority and safeguard their influence. They partially succeeded in so doing, and their efforts - successful or not - left a heavy imprint on Britain's fledgling democracy. A readable book thoroughly grounded in the aristocracy's rich archives, Making Aristocracy Work is an important contribution to our understanding of the development of Britain's modern political system.
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- Title Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain 1884-1914
- Author Andrew Adonis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Clarendon Press
- Date 1993-07-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780198203896 / 0198203896
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.88 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.24 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Politics and government -, Great Britain - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92040926
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.522
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