Class in Britain, David Cannadine

Автор: Cannadine, David
Название: The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
ISBN: 0375703683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375703683
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15940.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change." --The New York Times

At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige, and political significance.

Deftly orchestrating an enormous array of documents and letters, facts, and statistics, David Cannadine shows how this shift came about--and how it was reinforced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Astonishingly learned, lucidly written, and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history.

Автор: Cannadine, David
Название: Mellon
ISBN: 0307386791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307386793
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15330.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.
Andrew Mellon, one of America's greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America's course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business-prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken idol. Collecting art was his only nonprofessional gratification and his great gift to the American people, The National Gallery of Art, remains his most tangible legacy.

Автор: David Cannadine
Название: The Undivided Past
ISBN: 0141036907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141036908
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 11430.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. This title presents an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences.