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Index
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Ascendancy: 1066–1603
Chapter 1: A Game of Dice: The Growth of Aristocratic Power
Chapter 2: Manners with Virtue: The Cult of Chivalry and the Culture of the Aristocracy
Chapter 3: Their Plenty was Our Scarcity: Resistance
Chapter 4: Weeds Which Must Be Mown Down: The Wars of the Roses 1450–87
Chapter 5: As a True Knight: Honour and Violence and the Wars of the Roses
Chapter 6: In Foolish Submission: Irish and Scottish Aristocracies
Chapter 7: Obeyed and Looked Up To: The Tudors and Their Lords
Chapter 8: Stir Up Your Fame: A New Breed of Noblemen
Part Two: Equilibrium: 1603–1815
Chapter 9: I Honour the King as Much as I Love Parliament: The Road to Civil War
Chapter 10: A Circular Motion: Revolution and Restoration 1642–60
Chapter 11: Signal Deliverances: Restoration 1660–85
Chapter 12: The People Assembled and Freely Chose Them: The Glorious Revolution and After
Chapter 13: I’ll Share the Fate of My Prince: Jacobites
Chapter 14: Magnificence: Grand Houses and Grand Tours
Chapter 15: Public Character: The Aristocratic Century 1714–1815
Chapter 16: A Fair Kingdom: Fame, Taste and Fashion
Chapter 17: We Come for Pheasants: Peers and Poachers
Chapter 18: A Gang of Ruffians: Americans and Aristocracy
Chapter 19: The Aristocrat to Quell: Peers, Patriots and Paineites 1789–1815
Part Three: Decline: 1815–
Chapter 20: Rats: Crisis and Compromise
Chapter 21: Thoroughbred: Sport and Manliness
Chapter 22: The Surrender of Feudalism to Industry: The Mid-Victorian Peerage 1846–87
Chapter 23: Revolvers Prominently Displayed: The Downfall of the Irish Aristocracy
Chapter 24: Like Chaff Before Us: Hanging On 1887–1914
Chapter 25: Dangers and Honours: War, Empire and the Aristocracy
Chapter 26: Always Keep Hold of Nurse: Aristocratic Twilight
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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