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Preface to the Vintage Edition | |
Preface to the 1992 Edition | |
List of Abbreviations | |
A Note on Sources | |
Prologue: Presuppositions and Problems | p. 1 |
The Embattled Elite | p. 35 |
The Decline and Dispersal of Territorial Wealth | p. 88 |
The Erosion of Local Control | p. 139 |
The Eclipse of a Senatorial Order | p. 182 |
The Demise of Patrician Professionals | p. 236 |
The 'Corruption' of Public Life | p. 297 |
The Dilution of Select Society | p. 341 |
From Leisured Class to Labouring Aristocracy | p. 391 |
Lost Causes and Disappointed Hopes | p. 445 |
The Politics of Paranoia | p. 500 |
The Reconstruction of Social Prestige | p. 557 |
The Second World War | p. 606 |
The End of the Affair | p. 637 |
Epilogue: Perceptions and Perspectives | p. 697 |
The Greatest British Landowners, c. 1880 | p. 710 |
Patrician Members of British Cabinets, 1880-1980 | p. 711 |
Senior Posts in the Foreign and Diplomatic Services | p. 712 |
Titled Company Directors, 1896 and 1920 | p. 717 |
Patrician Mayors of British Towns, 1880-1945 | p. 718 |
Chancellors of British Universities, 1880-1945 | p. 720 |
Viceroys of India and Governors-General of British Dominions | p. 723 |
Patterns of Estate Ownership, 1876-1976 | p. 725 |
Notes | p. 727 |
Index | p. 794 |
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