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...Aristotle provided depiction of three kinds of regimes --- [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]], and polity, and the repsective degradation of the three, namely, [[tyran

...to save a fellow “toff.” The near-incestuous nature of the Upper Canadian aristocracy is further demonstrated by the fact that, in 1818, Samuel Peters Jarvis mar

...BC was a troubled period in Athenian history. Society was dominated by the aristocracy and their vehicle of government, [[The Areopagus]]. The poorer farmers were

...1967): 365-368. *Stephenson Wendell H. "Ulrich B. Phillips: Historian of Aristocracy." in ''The South Lives in History: Southern Historians and Their Legacy'' L

...widely perceived as the [[stereotype|stereotypical]] accent of the British aristocracy and, to some extent, middle-class people from the south of England, especia

...lic (as with our Editorial Council which will be starting up soon), not an aristocracy or oligarchy, or Wikipedia-style rule of the "in crowd." The tendency of s

...her. The civilisation depicted is a pagan, pastoral one ruled by a warrior aristocracy. Bonds between aristocratic families are cemented by fosterage of each othe

...e, history|revolutionary episode in France]] that deposed the king and the aristocracy, created a republic, and included a period of terror, in which thousands we ...wo stages, a liberal bourgeois revolution (1789) against the feudal landed aristocracy, followed by a second and more radical democratic revolution against the bo

...condition of the people and temporarily broken the political power of the aristocracy, most of the old families were still looking to the past rather than the fu

...rams (and for new battleships). The Conservatives, representing the landed aristocracy, controlled the House of Lords, which rejected the 1909 budget. The Liberal

* Fox, Dixon Ryan. ''The Decline of the Aristocracy in the Politics of New York.'' Columbia Univ. Press, 1919.

...hes the virtue of surviving on only just enough. Its leaders were from the aristocracy, and the churches, not from the industrial or political classes, and it onl

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* Karsten, Peter. '' The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism'

...ofessor E. Digby Baltzell in his 1964 book ''The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America''. However, its first recorded use was by Andrew Hacker

...erties'' as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent and civic ...unconstitutional taxes, and, ultimately, an system of rule by an inherited aristocracy.

...rtue]] practised by citizens. Republicanism always stands in opposition to aristocracy, oligarchy and dictatorship. More broadly, it refers to a political system ...ism), after the fall of the [[Ottoman Empire]] which had been an inherited aristocracy and sultanate suppressing republican ideas. In the 21st century Turkey has

...nal,'' 3 (1960), 125-43 </ref> Burke in particular saw the Church and the aristocracy, whose power was based on property, as the true carriers of tradition. Burk

...dest Dickens ever attempted, ranging from the filthy slums to the [[landed aristocracy]], in a narrative that is in equal parts [[pathos]] and [[comedy]]. One cha

...hogunate was at a low ebb. People attached to the residences of the court aristocracy or formerly employed by shrines or Buddhist temples, craftsmen, and ordinar