Title Lords of Misrule : hostility to aristocracy in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain / Antony Taylor

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Aristocratic Debauchery and Working-Class Virtue: The Case of Colonel Valentine Baker -- 'The Apostle of Plunder': The Influence of Henry George in England Reconsidered -- Hunting, Moral Outrage, and Radical Opposition to Animal Abuse in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain -- 'Lords of Misrule': Liberalism, the House of Lords, and the Campaign Against Privilege -- Plutocracy -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography Summary Lords of Misrule reclaims the rhetoric of hostility to aristocracy in Britain. Frequently dismissed as an aspect of the underdeveloped nature of British socialism, anti-aristocratic sentiment is sometimes seen as an immature expression of politics. This book takes a different view. Anti-aristocratic ideas demonstrate the continuities within popular radicalism. Opposition to privilege and the landed elite reframed the Land Question, and touched long-standing concerns about the dispossession of the English peasantry. Through a close scrutiny of aristocratic immorality, the gentry's monopoly of land, opposition to hunting, and historical controversies about the House of Lords, hostility to aristocracy emerges as central, rather than peripheral, to the popular politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Consideration of anti-aristocratic ideas provides an alternative avenue for the understanding of pre-labourist radicalism, and, informed by imperial perspectives and recent work on literacy, broadens the parameters of the historiography of popular reformism in Britain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Aristocracy (Political science) -- Great Britain -- History Power (Social sciences) -- History. Politics, Practical -- Great Britain -- History British & Irish history. 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes. History. Aristocracy (Political science) Politics and government Politics, Practical Power (Social sciences) Adel. Machtsmisbruik. Politieke oppositie. Radicalisme. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868 Subject Great Britain Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230514003 0230514006

Other Titles Hostility to aristocracy in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain

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