Lords of Misrule
Subtitle: hostility to aristocracy in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain
By: Antony Taylor
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Aristocracy (Political science) -- Great Britain -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- History; Politics, Practical -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index
Table of contents: title: Aristocratic debauchery and working-class virtue: the case of Colonel Valentine Baker; title: "The apostle of plunder": the influence of Henry George in England reconsidered; title: Hunting, moral outrage, and radical opposition to animal abuse in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain; title: Lords of misrule: liberalism, the House of Lords, and the campaign against privilege, 1870-1911; title: Plutocracy