By Ellis Wasson
Wasson explodes myths and jettisons stereotypes in sweeping insurance that takes the tale from the Congress of Vienna to Stalingrad. The research recounts the switch from the genteel international of court docket balls to Café Society and at last directly to Eurotrash. It additionally contrasts the ambiguity of endured aristocratic social strength and cultural management with the slow decline of their political authority. Aristocracy and the fashionable World covers key subject matters, such as:
- the great wealth of the nice magnates
- the connection among servants and masters
- interplay with the center classes
- innovations of honour
- tradition, sport and gender
- neighborhood authority and nationwide power.
Lively and authoritative, the publication experiences advancements in Scandinavia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Italy and Spain in addition to in Britain, Germany and Russia. it truly is crucial studying for all people with an curiosity in smooth eu history.
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