The Making of A Ruling Class - The Glamorgan Gentry 1640 - 1790

Philip Jenkins

ISBN 10: 052125003X / ISBN 13: 9780521250030

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983

About this Item

380 pages (xxvi, 356), appendices, notes, index; publisher's Cambridge-blue cloth, gilt-blocked rules and titles on the spine; grey/green dust-wrapper. Very Good. no writing, mark-up, labels or other defacememts; unclipped jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of A Ruling Class - The Glamorgan Gentry 1640 - 1790
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052125003X
• ISBN 13: 9780521250030
• Binding: Hardcover/Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History & Biography
  • Welsh Interest and Books in Welsh
  • Politics, Economics and related topics

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

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.