Making Aristocracy Work

a welcome addition ... scholarly and thorough study Times Literary Supplement `formidably researched and constantly fascinating book ... He is neither excessively deferential nor uncomprehendingly hostile ... as an account of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century peerage at work, this book will not be bettered. And it should be read by anyone with an interest in second chambers: past, present - or future.' David Cannadine, The Observer 'scholarly, but quite fascinating, new book The Daily Mail 'This is a very important and salutary book ... it is written with elegance and clarity.' J.H. Plumb, Financial Times 'extraordinary lumber-room of a book ... My first visit to the Other Place, some thirty years ago, remains a vivid memory because the conditions were so similar to those described by Adonis.' London Review of Books 'a welcome addition ... scholarly and thorough study' Contemporary Review 'accomplished book' Times Literary Supplement `This book is more than the history of an institution. It is a study of the career patterns and aspirations of a political class.' Parliamentary History `Lucidly written and based on a wealth of archives, Andrew Adonis's Making Aristocracy Work ... fires efficiently on three cylinders, as an analysis of a power elite in operation, as a contribution to the still neglected study of how Parliament performed its functions, and as a commentary on the adjustment of pre-1914 British politics to what contemporaries chose to call 'democracy'.' Paul Smith, University of Southampton, EHR Apr.96