Onder aristocraten:over hegemonie, welstand en aanzien van adel, patriciaat en andere notabelen in Nederland, 1848-1914

Recently the history of aristocrats in the modern world captured the attention of a steadily growing number of historians and social scientists in several countries. Their disappearance from public life is evident everywhere. Blending of the old families in the upper middle classes of Europe is one of the leading themes in international historical research. Did aristocrats really merge with the upper middle classes? If so, why, when and how did this fusion take place? The Kingdom of the Netherlands is an interesting case in Europe. Traditionally the nation is known as a particularly bourgeois... Mehr ...