Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Branded Gentry and the Fall of English Culture
The Sloane's is a culture studies construction an actual material culture and a kind of style or all of itself. The other aesthetic thing is dress and style and you get into the kind of classic tribe almost of the branded gentry. I was really struck in that chapter where your analysis which is quite rare for an academic analysis basically goes out into the wild.
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