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Making Aristocracy Work - The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Making Aristocracy Work - The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884-1914 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Making Aristocracy Work explores the political role of the British
peerage in the thirty years before the First World War. It charts
its transition from ruling class to embattled faction, analysing
the response of the peers to the challenge of democracy and their
impact on the constitutional order which emerged from the turbulent
politics of the late Victorian and Edwardian era. The book opens
with a study of the House of Lords, assessing its strengths and
weaknesses as a political institution and offering new
interpretations of the constitutional crises of 1884-5 and 1909-11.
It proceeds to assess the wider activity of the peerage in
national, local, and imperial government, and the changing nature
of its mentalite as a political elite. The evolution of the peerage
is no simplistic story of descent from power to impotence, argues
Dr Adonis. Under Lord Salisbury, the peers met challenges to their
political standing with a determination to refashion their
authority and safeguard their influence. They partially succeeded
in so doing, and their efforts - successful or not - left a heavy
imprint on Britain's fledgling democracy. A readable book
thoroughly grounded in the aristocracy's rich archives, Making
Aristocracy Work is an important contribution to our understanding
of the development of Britain's modern political system.
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