PART ONE: PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS

The Making of the British Upper Classes

2 Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century

3 Nobility and Mobility in Modern Britain

PART TWO: INDIVIDUALS IN CONTEXT

4 Lord Curzon as Ceremonial Impresario

5 Lord Strickland: Imperial Aristocrat and Aristocratic Imperialist

6 Winston Churchill as an Aristocratic Adventurer

PART THREE: THE DYNASTIC PERSPECTIVE

7 The Landowner as Millionaire: The Finances of the Dukes of Devonshire

8 Landowners, Lawyers and Litterateurs: The Cozens-Hardys of Letheringsett

9 Portrait of More Than a Marriage: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West Revisited

Conclusion: Beyond the Country House

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