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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"aristocracy"”.
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The English aristocracy at war, 1272-1314
In the closing decades of the thirteenth century, the king of England, Edward I, embarked upon a series of wars in Wales, France and Scotland that placed unprecedented demands on the community of the realm. Although the Crown's war aims varied depending on whether the campaigns were being fought …
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Aristocracy and Appalachia: Edith Vanderbilt and Her Moonlight School
<p>A short biography of Edith Vanderbilt, focusing chiefly upon her marriage to George Vanderbilt.</p>
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Education, Aristocracy, and Morality in the Political Thought of François Guizot
… reforms were designed to generate a new aristocracy based on merit that would be compatible with a democratic social order. Throughout his political and intellectual career, Guizot sought to reconcile a society predicated on hierarchy with popular aspirations for equality, a political …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… connections between Englishness and the English aristocracy in Nancy Mitford’s novels through a detailed analysis of their symbolic-cultural representation: the English country house. The main purpose of the present work, which combines literary, biographical, historical, geographical, …
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More Equal Than Others: Animals in the Age of the Human Rights Aristocracy
Should we confer fundamental rights on nonhuman animals? Or would this undermine the rights of human beings? I answer these questions, first, by showing that they are not new, but go back at least as far as the eighteenth century. I identify two partly conflicting intellectual currents of the …
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Senatvi avctoritatem pristinam reddidisti : the Roman senatorial aristocracy under Constantine and Constantius II
… the Constantinian dynasty, the Roman senatorial aristocracy was subject to two major social and political transformations. Firstly, emperors gradually modified the rules for senatorial office-holding, moving away from a hereditary model towards a more flexible system in which rank could be gained …
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The Experiences of the Aristocracy in County Westmeath during the period 1879 to 1923.
The abstract is included in the text.
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State aristocracy : resident senators and absent emperors in Late-Antique Rome, c. 320-400
… in Rome. Late Roman aristocrats were an imperial aristocracy, whose social life, cultural identity and economic survival were inextricably intertwined with the institutions of the Roman state. Imperial withdrawal and the late-antique strenghthening of imperial institutions did not lead to the …
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Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
… of the socio-political dynamics of the aristocracy offers an alternative to earlier models and greatly enhances our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics and society.
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Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900
For over three decades, during the height of Gilded Age economic extravagance, the women of New York High Society maintained an elite social identity by possessing, displaying, and cultivating cultural capital. Particularly, High Society women sought to exclude the Nouveaux Riches who, after …
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The children of the aristocracy and squirearchy in 18th century England : a new era in parent-child relationships
… changes in the lives of children of the aristocracy and squirearchy, in mid-eighteenth century England. Prior to that time there was little or no differentiation between certain aspects of childhood (after the age of seven), and those of adulthood. The influence of Locke and Rousseau was …
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‘Aristocracy of violence’: Counter-cultural radicalisation and the construction of hegemony in Italian nationalism and fascism, 1884–1935
This doctoral dissertation examines the various ways in which intellectuals, writers, politicians, journalists and ordinary citizens engaged with cultural and political hegemony in both liberal and fascist Italy. Through utilising and developing Gramscian and Bourdieuan theories on the mechanisms …
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The Affair or the State: Intellectuals, the Press, and the Dreyfus Affair
… The list includes 'capitalism', 'socialism', 'aristocracy', 'liberal', 'conservative', 'nationality', 'crisis', 'journalism', and 'ideology'. For Hobsbawm, "To imagine the modern world without these words (i.e. without the things and concepts for which they provide names) is to measure the …
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Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate
… extending from the emperor through the imperial aristocracy to the provincial aristocracy (in particular, that of North Africa). At each level a description is offered of the economic, social and political goods and services exchanged and the types of people who entered into the patron-client …
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Memoria y nostalgia del Ochocientos: Il Gattopardo y Bearn. La transformación de la clase aristocrática italiana y española y su retrato en la literatura del siglo XX
… of the 19th-century Italian and Spanish aristocracy through its literary representation in Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Bearn o la sala de las muñecas by Llorenç Villalonga. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates history, literature, and the history of …
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Commedia
… up in a cultural struggle between the old Roman aristocracy and the new British nouveau riche. On a tour around Britain, the actors uncover a political and criminal plot that puts Britain in danger of invasion by Saxon mercenaries.
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Criminal Representation and the Construction of Middle-Class Subjectivity, 1823-1844
… class against both the lower classes and the aristocracy.
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
… of the interwar upper classes (above all, the aristocracy) in the contemporary English novel. I have chosen three novels for my study: Ian McEwan‟s Atonement (2001), Kazuo Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) and Evelyn Waugh‟s Brideshead Revisited (1945). My main critical perspective is a …
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