Autor: Mark Rothery

This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household …

This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household …

Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history. Man’s Estate is the first book to focus on a particular social group, the English landed gentry, and to cover a time span of several hundred years. …

The power and status of English male elites were not merely inherited at birth but developed through everyday interactions with family, peers and guardians. Much of these conversations were conducted …