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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
By the middle of the 20th century, the British aristocracy had lost most of their wealth and power. This book is the first serious attempt to study the social history of the British aristocracy during the last century. The result is a compelling account of one of the most significant changes that occurred in modern British history. Photos.
The old upper class - Britain's aristocracy
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2.0 (B), University of Osnabrück (Anglistics), language: English, abstract: In his personal comment ‘On Britain’ Ralf Dahrendorf detected the continuation of a powerful, self-confident and easily identifiable upper class lacked by other modern countries like Germany or France and the rather persistent survival of its old values as one of the reasons for the peculiar nature of the inequality of the British society. He called Britain a ‘society of fine distinctions’ which as well as economic inequalities between the occupational layers are responsible for the...
