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- catalog abstract ""The long-running debate of Britain's apparent economic decline in the last 120 years has generated a large economic and statistical literature and a great deal of heat in rival social and cultural explanations. The 'decline' has been confidently attributed to the permeation of the business elite by the anti-industrial and anti-commercial attitudes communicated by public schools and the old universities through their propagation of aristocratic and gentry values; and the readiness of the business elite to be thus permeated has been ascribed to the persistent tendency of new men of wealth to transform themselves into landed gentlemen. There have been equally confident claims to have overturned this traditional view that wealthy merchants and industrialists sought to acquire landed estates and country houses, and to have established that 'gentlemanly values' were in fact economically advantageous to Britain because she never was a primarily industrial economy." "In this book, Professor Thompson subjects these interpretations to the test of the actual evidence, and firmly re-establishes the conventional wisdom on the characteristic desire of new money to acquire land and a place in the country, an aspiration which continues to be manifest today. At the same time, he shows that aristocratic and gentry cultures have not by any means been consistently anti-industrial or anti-business, and that many of the businessmen-turned-landowners have in fact not turned their backs on industry, but have founded business dynasties. Gentrification has indeed occurred on a large scale over the last two hundred years, but has had no discernible effects one way or the other on Britain's economic performance."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12147494.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In this book, Professor Thompson subjects these interpretations to the test of the actual evidence, and firmly re-establishes the conventional wisdom on the characteristic desire of new money to acquire land and a place in the country, an aspiration which continues to be manifest today. At the same time, he shows that aristocratic and gentry cultures have not by any means been consistently anti-industrial or anti-business, and that many of the businessmen-turned-landowners have in fact not turned their backs on industry, but have founded business dynasties. Gentrification has indeed occurred on a large scale over the last two hundred years, but has had no discernible effects one way or the other on Britain's economic performance."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The long-running debate of Britain's apparent economic decline in the last 120 years has generated a large economic and statistical literature and a great deal of heat in rival social and cultural explanations. The 'decline' has been confidently attributed to the permeation of the business elite by the anti-industrial and anti-commercial attitudes communicated by public schools and the old universities through their propagation of aristocratic and gentry values; and the readiness of the business elite to be thus permeated has been ascribed to the persistent tendency of new men of wealth to transform themselves into landed gentlemen.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "There have been equally confident claims to have overturned this traditional view that wealthy merchants and industrialists sought to acquire landed estates and country houses, and to have established that 'gentlemanly values' were in fact economically advantageous to Britain because she never was a primarily industrial economy."".
- catalog extent "200 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199243301".
- catalog isPartOf "Ford lectures ; 1994.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Ford Lectures delivered at the University of Oxford in Hilary Term ; 1994".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "305.5/0941 21".
- catalog subject "Businesspeople Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Gentry Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "HC256 .T48 2001".
- catalog subject "Social mobility Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Gentrification and the enterprise culture : Britain, 1780-1980 / F.M.L. Thompson.".
- catalog type "text".