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Author Thompson, F. M. L. (Francis Michael Longstreth)

Title Gentrification and the enterprise culture : Britain, 1780-1980 / F.M.L. Thompson
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource ([ix], 200 pages) : illustrations
Series Ford lectures ; 1994
Ford lectures ; 1994.
Contents 1. Posing the Problem -- 2. Aristocrats as Entrepreneurs -- 3. Entrepreneurs as Aristocrats -- 4. Entrepreneurial Culture and the Culture of Entrepreneurs -- 5. Consumption, Culture, and the 'Unenterprising' Businessman -- 6. Gentlemanly Values, Education, and the Industrial Spirit -- 7. Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Cultural Explanations of Economic Performance -- App. New Men of Wealth and the Purchase of Landed Estates
Summary In this book, the author, with his typical blend of elegance and erudition, makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialsim in Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- History
Gentry -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Gentry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Gentry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Social mobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Social mobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Social mobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Businesspeople.
Gentry.
Social mobility.
Soziale Mobilität
Unternehmer
Gentry
Unternehmenskultur
Landadel.
Economisch gedrag.
Zakenlieden.
Sociale mobiliteit.
Economische groei.
Economic History.
Business & Economics.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00066545
ISBN 1280904933
9781280904936
9786610904938
6610904936
9780199243303
0199243301