Born to Rule
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: May 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780750923132
Subjects: History of specific subjects; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social classes; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History & Theory - General; History / General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Political Process - Leadership
Description: "This book is a study of the governing class in Great Britain and Ireland based on a complete survey of all families who participated regularly in parliament." "Using the records of the History of Parliament and the results of his own independent research, Ellis Wasson has reconstructed the shape and structure of Britain's small and remarkably stable ruling elite from medieval times to 1945. No other European governing class was so rich or able to survive into the modern era with much of that wealth and privilege intact. Wasson shows how its unique two-tiered structure of a handful of ancient families on top and a much larger second echelon broadly open to 'new men' from business helped Britain become the first modern society and prolonged the elite's supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.