Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980

by F. M. L. Thompson

Overview

In this book F. M. L. Thompson makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialism in Britain. He provides an expert analysis of the links between economic performance and the penetration of industrial wealth into landed society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199265602
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/07/2003
Series:	Ford Lectures , #1994
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

University of London

Table of Contents

1. Posing the Problem2. Aristocrats as Entrepreneurs3. Entrepreneurs as Aristocrats4. Entrepreneurial Culture and the Culture of Entrepreneurs5. Consumption, Culture, and the 'Unenterprising' Businessman6. Gentlemanly Values, Education, and the Industrial Spirit7. Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Cultural Explanations of Economic Performance

Editorial Reviews

"With the skill of a consummate historian, Thompson introduces, challenges, and demlishes established visions of who the gentry were and what gentrification entailed as he arrives at his own more open and elastic model. This makes Thompson's work important not only as a revisionist cultural history of gentrification and the enterprise culture but also as a critical evaluation of extant scholarship on the subject."—History

"This admirable study...should be required reading for students of British economic history in the modern period."—Economic History

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