{"product_id":"9781526157010","title":"The fall and rise of the English upper class","description":"Author: Daniel R. Smith\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526157010\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 24 Aug 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe fall and rise of the English upper class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain's post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain's Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920516432030,"sku":"ING-9781526157010","price":194.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526157010.jpg?v=1782822720","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526157010","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}