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Balfour's World - Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siecle (Hardcover)
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Balfour's World - Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siecle (Hardcover)
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An exploration of political culture in Britain in the last decades
of the nineteenth century, revealing how Arthur Balfour and his
circle served as a clear bridge between the Victorians and the
moderns in Britain's twentieth-century political culture. Arthur
James Balfour (1848-1930) was born toward the beginning of Queen
Victoria's long reign. At her death in 1901, he was a year away
from becoming the first prime minister of the Edwardian era. In the
quarter century after hisentry into political life in the 1870s,
Britain experienced material changes and a sense of intensifying
human interactions as dramatic to his generation as the forces of
globalization are today. Aristocrats watched anxiously as gifted
boys from the middle classes rose to the top in professional life.
Culture wars over male and female behaviours erupted at home, as
small wars of empire proliferated overseas. Politicians came to
terms with electioneering among the masses and with a boisterous
print culture that prefigured the mass media of the next century.
The first great era of advanced, international capitalism affected
every segment of British and imperial society, including
therarefied domain of Arthur Balfour. That changes of the magnitude
that Balfour's generation faced would demand different skills,
career paths or political alignments is not surprising. That they
might also result in thecreation of different emotional sets and
interior worlds may be more so. Balfour's World provides an
intimate history of how Arthur and his friends - George Herbert,
13th Earl of Pembroke; Laura and Margot (later Lady Asquith)
Tennant; Mary and George Wyndham - helped to construct a new
'emotional regime' among Britain's political elites at the fin de
siecle. The rich diaries, letters and publications they left allow
access both to public selves and to inner landscapes, and the mix
of psychological patterns and cultural assumptions that mediated
their responses to the world. As the new century began, the
demeanours modelled by habitues of Balfour's world would
characterizemany in the imperial elite, marking them as a clear
bridge between the Victorians and the moderns in Britain's
twentieth-century political culture. NANCY W. ELLENBERGER is
Professor of History at the United States NavalAcademy, Annapolis,
Maryland.
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