Aristocrats : power, grace and decadence : Britain's great ruling classes since 1066 by James, Lawrence, 1943- instant download

Aristocrats : power, grace and decadence : Britain's great ruling classes since 1066 by James, Lawrence, 1943- instant download

ix, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm, For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, this is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed, Includes bibliographical references and index, Pt. 1. Ascendancy: 1066-1603 -- 1. Game of Dice: The Growth of Aristocratic Power -- 2. Manners with Virtue: The Cult of Chivalry and the Culture of the Aristocracy -- 3. Their Plenty was Our Scarcity: Resistance -- 4. Weeds Which Must Be Mown Down: The Wars of the Roses 1450-87 -- 5. As a True Knight: Honour and Violence and the Wars of the Roses -- 6. In Foolish Submission: Irish and Scottish Aristocracies -- 7. Obeyed and Looked Up To: The Tudors and Their Lords -- 8. Stir Up Your Fame: A New Breed of Noblemen -- Pt. 2. Equilibrium: 1603-1815 -- 9. I Honour the King as Much as I Love Parliament: The Road to Civil War -- 10. Circular Motion: Revolution and Restoration 1642-60 -- 11. Signal Deliverances: Restoration 1660-85 -- 12. People Assembled and Freely Chose Them: The Glorious Revolution and After -- 13. I'll Share the Fate of My Prince: Jacobites -- 14. Magnificence: Grand Houses and Grand Tours -- 15. Public Character: The Aristocratic Century 1714-1815 -- 16. Fair Kingdom: Fame, Taste and Fashion -- 17. We Come for Pheasants: Peers and Poachers -- 18. Gang of Ruffians: Americans and Aristocracy -- 19. Aristocrat to Quell: Peers, Patriots and Paineites 1789-1815 -- Pt. 3. Decline: 1815- -- 20. Rats: Crisis and Compromise -- 21. Thoroughbred: Sport and Manliness -- 22. Surrender of Feudalism to Industry: The Mid-Victorian Peerage 1846-87 -- 23. Revolvers Prominently Displayed: The Downfall of the Irish Aristocracy -- 24. Like Chaff Before Us: Hanging On 1887-1914 -- 25. Dangers and Honours: War, Empire and the Aristocracy -- 26. Always Keep Hold of Nurse: Aristocratic…