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    To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. A Very Short Introduction William Doyle Very Short Introductions Examines the definitions, structure, and behavior of aristocracies Analyses their origins and considers the wider impact of their behavior Looks at the continuing influence of class to this day.

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    Why have Roman models and examples been so influential in the history of aristocracies? How were aristocratic ideals and practices able to survive so many crises and challenges? Why did challenges to aristocratic hegemony become so much more serious in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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    Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction. Description Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power, in traditions and behaviour, in architecture and the arts, are still all around us. This short introduction shows how ideas of aristocracy originated in ancient times, were transformed in the middle ages, and have only fallen apart over the last two centuries. The myths in which aristocracies have always sought to shroud themselves are stripped away, but the true sources of their enduring power are also revealed.

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    Their outlook and behaviour affected the rest of society in innumerable and sometimes surprising ways, but perhaps most surprising was the way in which a centuries-old aristocratic hegemony crumbled away over the last two hundred years.