The Fall And Rise Of The English Upper Class Houses - Kinship And Capital Since 1945

The fall and rise of the english upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in british society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century.Situating these traditionalist visions alongside britain’s post-brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, smith examines britain’s establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism.It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging.Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits england. -- .

The fall and rise of the english upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in british