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Aristocracies dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European countries until only a few generations ago. William Doyle strips away the myths and beliefs which have always surrounded them, looking at how these very distinctive governing elites held onto power, and analyses when, how, and why they eventually lost it.

Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy (Political science) --- Aristocracy --- Political science --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- History.

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Wealth --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Middle class --- Millionaires --- France --- Social life and customs. --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Rich people --- Upper class --- Nobility

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This important new book takes a fascinating thematic approach, providing a useful survey of the position and role of the nobility in the government of states in early modern Europe.

Monarchy --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- History. --- Europe --- Politics and government. --- Politics --- History --- #A0301H

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Sans rien ignorer des spécificités de différentes aristocraties, anciennes et nouvelles, et des groupes qui les constituent, les auteurs de cet ouvrage tentent plutôt de les confronter, de rechercher les caractères communs qui les soudent, les différences qui les séparent et, plus encore, les fondements de clivages souvent ambigus entre aristocrates et non-aristocrates. Leur ambition est tout à la fois de présenter des études de cas précises réalisées en France, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne, Italie, Hongrie, Finlande et Suède, un état des lieux ainsi que des recherches sur les noblesses menées par historiens, anthropologues et sociologues et enfin de proposer une analyse critique et comparative des évolutions de ces noblesses. Quel est le poids du symbolique mais aussi des décrochements politiques dans les transformations: disparition, désagrégation et parfois recomposition des anciennes aristocraties et constitution de nouvelles aristocraties ? Comment appréhender le phénomène aristocratique dans son extension européenne ? Comment articuler étude des tensions entre appartenances contradictoires - nationale et européenne, nobiliaire et démocratique - dans lesquelles sont parfois enserrés les aristocrates, et analyse des modes de reproduction de ces groupes ? Ce sont quelques-unes des questions majeures abordées dans ce livre.

Nobility --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social history --- History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- History --- Sociology --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social groups --- Upper class --- aristocratie --- XXème siècle --- Europe --- noblesse --- XIXème siècle

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From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of the period; from the early nineteenth century, however, the family were shadowed by their reputation as great clearance landlords, something that would come back to haunt them throughout the coming decades.This book:studies the workings

Administration of estates --- Land use, Rural --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- Rural land use --- Land use --- Agriculture --- Administration --- Estates, Administration of --- Real property --- History --- Sutherland family. --- Sutherland (Scotland) --- Sutherland, Scot. --- Sutherland (Highland Region, Scotland) --- Rural conditions.