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Aristocratic Century - The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, Revised)
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Aristocratic Century - The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The Wiles Lectures
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Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has
commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears
atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on
religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the
image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of
the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface
lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his
1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the
widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic
leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social
coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the
aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was
abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution
of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and
society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most
cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian
society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually
replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He
suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English
peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental
counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a
potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues
that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their
long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a
country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth
to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the
ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy
acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and
ideals which were ultimately to replace it.
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