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Most Superior Persons: David Cannadine and the British Aristocracy - The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. By David Cannadine. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 813. $35.00.
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1 See p. 399—which is not in the index; p. 388, which is in the index, is not in the book!
2 Times Literary Supplement, no. 4,568 (October 19–25, 1990), pp. 1123–24Google Scholar.
3 Ibid., p. 1123.
4 See, esp., Cannadine, David, Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and Towns, 1774–1967 (Leicester, 1981)Google Scholar.
5 In Operette, which opened in London in March 1938 (Castle, Charles, Noel [1972], p. 155Google Scholar).
6 Ibid., p. 153.
7 On Anglo-American marriages and their impact, see Montgomery, Maureen, Gilded Prostitution: Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages (1989)Google Scholar. Davis, R. W. (“‘We Are All Americans Now!’ Anglo-American Marriages in the Later Nineteenth Century,” Proceedings cf the American Philosophical Society 135, no. 2 [June 1991])Google Scholar, based on largely new evidence, and of a different sort, reaches similar conclusions.
8 To this reviewer's mind, the argument is much more clearly put in Thompson, 's “Presidential Address: English Landed Society in the Twentieth Century: I, Property: Collapse and Survival” (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., vol. 40 [1990])CrossRefGoogle Scholar, than in the relevant sections of the same author's important but somewhat quirky work, The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830–1900 (1988).