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

by Philip Jenkins

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521521947
• ISBN13: 9780521521949
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"