An Open Elite?

An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From a detailed examination of the landed elites of three counties between 1540 and 1880, the authors come to radical new conclusions about the landed classes. They describe the strategies of marriage and inheritance evolved by older families to preserve their position, and establish that the number of newcomers was always relatively small. The resulting work is a major reassessment of the social, economic, and political history of England since the Reformation. This abridged edition of what was immediately recognized as a major work of historical scholarship was first published in 1986 and is now available in Clarendon Paperback with a new foreword by Lawrence Stone.

ISBN 0198206070   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780198206071 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 496 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Clarendon Press   Series title Clarendon Paperbacks Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 14 Sep 1995   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 305.5230942   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 340

The most important, exciting, and original book on the English landed elite to have appeared since The Crisis of Aristocracy. There can be no higher praise than that. David Cannadine, New York Review of Books

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