| Description |
vi, 379 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Elitism and democracy in classical Athens / Robin Seager -- The aristocracy of the Roman republic / Richard E. Mitchell -- Charity and the defense of the urban elites in the Italian communes / Richard C. Trexler -- Politics and community in Elizabethan London / Frank F. Foster -- An East European elite in the eighteenth century: the Rumanian uniate hierarchy / Keith Hitchins -- Bureaucracy and patronage: the view from an eighteenth-century Russian letter-writer / David L. Ransel -- Elites in conflict in tsarist Russia: the Briansk Company / John P. McKay -- The survival of the Victorian aristocracy / Walter L. Arnstein -- Style and status: high society in the late nineteenth-century New York / Frederic Cople Jaher -- Metropolitan elites in the Midwest, 1907-29: a study in multivariate collective biography / Richard Jensen -- The political responses of the Chilean upper class to the Great Depression and the threat of socialism, 1931-33 / Paul W. Drake -- The New Deal intellectual elite: a collective portrait / Thomas A. Krueger and William Glidden |
| Summary |
Articles investigate the political, social, and economic power of privileged, wealthy classes in classical, Renaissance, Victorian, and modern cultures |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p.375-379 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 375-379 |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) -- History.
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Rich people -- History.
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Upper class -- History.
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| Author |
Jaher, Frederic Cople.
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| LC no. |
72089605 |
| ISBN |
0252003195 |
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