The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain

activities agricultural Anthony Giddens assets banks baronets borough seats Britain British business class capital cent class situation commercial 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 military millionaires Mingay monopoly sector nineteenth century officers organised ownership Oxbridge parliament parliamentary party pattern peerage peers period position privileged classes production public schools recruitment relation rentiers role Routledge & Kegan royal share shareholders social class social honour society Stanworth status group strategic control stratification stratum Table tenant titles trade transformation University Press wealth wealth-holders Weber Whig Whilst