Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain 1884-1914

by Andrew Adonis

Making Aristocracy Work explores the political role and activities of the peerage, both inside and outside Parliament, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Adonis examines the House of Lords and its practices during this period, and offers a new interpretation of the constitutional crisis of 1909-1911. He reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Lords, questioning its effectiveness as a revising chamber, but at the same time clearly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198203896
• ISBN13: 9780198203896
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"