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Elites, race and nationhood : the branded gentry

Title
Elites, race and nationhood : the branded gentry / Daniel R. Smith (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK).
ISBN
9781137509604
1137509600
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
vi, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how the internal economies of the brand forge a distinctive, elite social network made up of former public-school and Russell Group university students.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
Contents
Branded gentry
The gentry aesthetic
The dialectic of Jack Wills
Patronage and its conflicts
Convivial privilege and exclusion
Ambivalent aspiration
Conclusion: embedded economies and distributive justice in Arcadia.
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