The Emergence of a Ruling Order: English Landed Society, 1650-1750 (Studies in Modern History)
London / New York: Longman, 1998. Softcover. Beige and color illus. wraps, 290 pp. "Considers how the English landed gentry secured their position of enduring wealth and political power across the century which saw their rise fro0m a provincial social order to the national ruling elite. ... Among the issues..... More