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2017
Taking as its starting point Andrew Marvell’s great poem of Big House life, ‘Upon Appleton House’, this chapter looks at an abiding interest held by McGahern in ideas of aristocracy and social rank. It demonstrates that Marvell is alluded to in both the haymaking scenes of Amongst Women and of That They May Face the Rising Sun and draws attention to ...
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Taking as its starting point Andrew Marvell’s great poem of Big House life, ‘Upon Appleton House’, this chapter looks at an abiding interest held by McGahern in ideas of aristocracy and social rank. It demonstrates that Marvell is alluded to in both the haymaking scenes of Amongst Women and of That They May Face the Rising Sun and draws attention to ...
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2002
Abstract The Roman senatorial order was the principal model to which the medieval aristocracies of western Europe looked, because it had been founded on the ownership of land, embodied the concept of nobility, and linked prestige to the exercise of political power and ancient lineage without excluding the promotion of homines novi.
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Abstract The Roman senatorial order was the principal model to which the medieval aristocracies of western Europe looked, because it had been founded on the ownership of land, embodied the concept of nobility, and linked prestige to the exercise of political power and ancient lineage without excluding the promotion of homines novi.
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Aristocracy in America: Tocqueville on White Supremacy
Journal of Politics, 2021Jennie C Ikuta
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The Assumptions of Aristocracy
American Journal of Sociology, 1938If the theory of aristocracy and dictatorship lays any claim to have solved on an objective basis the problems of equitable, effective, and stable political organization, it must validate three assumptions. It must prove (1) that there are well-defined differences in the political capacity of individualis; (2) that superior political types may be ...
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