An Open Elite?: England, 1540-1880 - Hardcover

Stone, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198226454 ISBN 13: 9780198226451

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1984

Synopsis

This book sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office.

About this title

Review:

The most important, exciting, and original book on the English landed elite to have appeared since The Crisis of Aristocracy. There can be no higher praise than that. (David Cannadine, New York Review of Books)

About the Author:

Until his retirement Director of Shelby Cullom David Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, Lawrence Stone remains one of the best-known historians in the world. For OUP he is the author of the trilogy Road to Divorce (1990, OPB 1995) Uncertain Unions (1992, OPB 1995) and Broken Lives (1993, OPB 1995) and also The Crisis of Aristocracy (1965, pb 1967)

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0198226454
• ISBN 13: 9780198226451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 590