'British and European bankers, 1880-1914. An 'aristocratic bourgeoisie''? in P Thane, G Crossick & R Floud (eds), Power of the Past. Essays for Eric Hobsbawn

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Author(s) Harris, Jose, & Pat Thane
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1984
Pages pp215-34
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Place Published Cambridge

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Name Entrepreneurs & business elites
Name Comparative international studies

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Considers the nature of British and European merchant bankers and private financiers, 1880-1914, exploring their social status and economic functions in order to shed light on the extent of their aristocratic absorption, undertaken in the context of a wider consideration of the changing nature of the relationship of the traditional aristocracy and the emergent industrial middle class in the period of industrial change