An Anglican aristocracy : the moral economy of the landed estate in Carmarthenshire, 1832-1895 / Matthew Cragoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cragoe, Matthew.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristocracy (Social class)--Wales--History--19th century.

Aristocracy (Social class).

History.

Wales.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages : map ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

This lively contribution to a major reassessment of nineteenth-century Wales challenges the widely-held Welsh historiography in which the contribution of the landed classes is marginalized in favour of the success of radical liberalism and nonconformity. This account of nineteenth-century Carmarthenshire emphasizes the social and political dominance of the Anglican and landowning nobility and gentry for much of the period. Matthew Cragoe explores the nature and public roles of a governing elite, arguing that their influence was not simply a function of their members' wealth or their control of local government and the administration of the law, but had a vital ideological dimension in the aristocracy's paternalistic ethic, which found powerful and practical expression in the 'moral economy' of the landed estate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-272) and index.

ISBN:

0198205945

OCLC:

32703822