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The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640 1790

The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640 1790

Jenkins, Philip
Philip, Jenkins

Paperback

General European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0521521947
ISBN13: 9780521521949
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 22 2002
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by common attitudes, social outlook, living standards and educational patterns. The author provides a synthesis of social, economic and political changes in the years prior to industrialisation. Political changes are studied in detail, and the changing role of political parties and ideologies is examined. Then, after a comprehensive study of the activities and attitudes of the gentry, the book concludes by attempting to explain precisely why Britain should have led the world in the twin processes of industrialisation and modernisation.

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