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... aristocratic life.21 But more interesting still was the perception that British noblemen had grown insensitive to their own overblown opulence in a country that displayed numerous scenes of poverty . How , asked Victor Hennequin in 1844 ...
... aristocratic life.21 But more interesting still was the perception that British noblemen had grown insensitive to their own overblown opulence in a country that displayed numerous scenes of poverty . How , asked Victor Hennequin in 1844 ...
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... aristocratic ' , he wrote . ' Even the radicals in this respect are eminently aristocratic'.2 26 27 Other features of the political process might be interpreted in similar fashion . The English horror of centralization could be seen as ...
... aristocratic ' , he wrote . ' Even the radicals in this respect are eminently aristocratic'.2 26 27 Other features of the political process might be interpreted in similar fashion . The English horror of centralization could be seen as ...
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... aristocratic cast of mind . 51 That a society experiencing the most extraordinary economic turbulence could be profoundly aristocratic was no paradox . A whole school of French critics pointed out the logic that made England in essence ...
... aristocratic cast of mind . 51 That a society experiencing the most extraordinary economic turbulence could be profoundly aristocratic was no paradox . A whole school of French critics pointed out the logic that made England in essence ...
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The Whigs the People and Reform | 25 |
Changing the Law in Germany in the Ancien Régime | 45 |
Notes on Contributors vii | |
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