The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class - Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Hardcover)

The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain’s post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain’s Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Daniel R. Smith
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-5701-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-5261-5701-2
Barcode:	9781526157010

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