The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain

activities agricultural assets banks baronets became borough seats Britain British business class capital cent class situation companies corporatism corporatist dominant Duke economic eighteenth century elite England English entrepreneurial capitalists establishment family strategy farmers feudal finance capitalists firms gentlemen gentry Giddens Habakkuk hierarchy House of Lords important income increased industrial industrial revolution institutions interests involved king kinship knight bachelor knighthood knights labour landed class landlord landowners legitimation crisis life-style London Lords magnates major marriage merchants Mingay monopoly sector nineteenth century officers organised ownership Oxbridge parliament parliamentary party pattern peerage peers period positions privileged classes production public schools recruitment relation relations of production rentiers role Routledge & Kegan royal share shareholders social class social honour society Stanworth status group strategic control stratification stratum structure Table tenant titles trade transformation University Press wealth wealth-holders Weber Whig Whilst