Smith, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-9487
2023.
The fall and rise of the English upper class: Houses, kinship and capital since 1945.
Manchester University Press.
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Abstract
The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain’s post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain’s Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England.
Item Type: | Book |
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Book Type: | Authored Book |
Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | In Press |
Schools: | Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
ISBN: | 978-1-5261-5701-0 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 26 February 2023 |
Date of Acceptance: | 19 December 2022 |
Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2023 11:10 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157333 |
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