Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain
- ISBN-10
- 0300059817
- ISBN-13
- 9780300059816
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- David Cannadine, Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research David Cannadine
Description
He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.
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