Description: Traces the development of a typical British aristocratic family, its estates and its activities over the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height and over the period when the aristocracy had to cope with increasing democratisation.
Review Quotes: [A] deeply researched and important study [...]. This is an important book and will be essential reading for historians of Scotland, Wales and Britain, as well as those working on class, especially the
elite, landed and aristocratic classes.--SCOTTISH HISTORICAL REVIEW