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Michael Thompson brings to his task his usual attributes of a sharp, liberal intelligence, an elegant style and much wit ... easy and enjoyable to read. * Labour History Review *
This book is a thoughtful probe of the normative assumptions of the last two hundred years. It is a wonderful work, and sparkles with the wisdom and wit first seen in Thompson's classic English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century. Not only is it rich and profound, it is remarkably brief, and always a pleasure to read. The book is a gift which no one else could confer, another high peak for a master scholar. * English Historical Review *
Michael Thompson's 1994 Ford Lectures, now published as Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture, will delight business historians. It is a measured distillation of half a century's distinguised research and writing on British landed society and social history. No historian better understands the world and workings of the landed classes in the last 200 years. * Business History *
The book concludes with an excellent chapter surveying the literature of cultural explanations of entrepreneurial failure, a good starting point for students and teachers alike on the subject. * Business History *
This is a book which can be read with considerable intellectual profit: it is elegantly written, well structured in terms of analytical progression, and offers a paradigmatic example of the historian's craft in summarizing and commenting upon a controversial literature. * The Economic History Review *
This admirable study should be required reading for students of British economic history in the modern period ... Thompson's evidence is the product of his unrivalled knowledge of the social and economic history of landownership in Britain during this period. * The Economic History Review *
The publication of Thompson's lectures under the title of Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture will be seen as perhaps the standard discussion on the subject ... The result is among the most intelligent and sensible series of historical essays to have been published in recent years, devoid of verbiage but animated by Thompson's wit and dry humour ... These outstanding essays represent a life-time's reflection on some of the key questions of twentieth-century British social history by one of it's great exponents, a man who has had a wholly beneficial influence on the discipline, both in an academic and personal sense. Britain's upper classes may well have changed so markedly that no gentleman therein remains, but one notes with satisfaction that at least one may still be found in British academic life. * William D. Rubinstein, Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199243303
Author Prof F. M. L. Thompson
Format Hardback
Page Count 210
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 164mm * 17mm