Aristocracy
Definition/Scope Note:
Government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed to be best qualified to rule.
Related Terms:
- monarch
Website/Online Sources
Journal Articles
- Violence and the 1 Percent: The fall of Medieval Chinese Aristocracy in Comparison to the Fall of the French Nobility/ Nicolas Tackett
- Aristocracy and Civilization/ Chilton Williamson
- The American Revolutionaries, the political economy of aristocracy, and the American concept of/ James L. Huston
- Democratic Man, aristocratic man, Historic Man/ Pierre Manent
- Twentieth Century Quadrilles: Aristocracy, Owners, Managers, and Professionals/ Gibson Burrell
eBooks:
- The Washingtons: A Family History/ Justin Glenn
- Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece/ Nathan Crick
- The Collapse Of Rome: Maruis, Sulla & the 1st Civil War (91-70 BC)/ Gareth C. Sampson
- Ancient Greece/ Diane Bailey
- Ancient Egypt/ L.J. Amstutz
Odilo
- Manners and Social Usages/ Mrs. John Sherwood
- A Defense of Aristocracy A Textbook for Tories/ Anthony M. Ludovici
- Democracy in America/ Ralph Raico
- The Religions of the Ancient World Including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, india, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome/ George Rawilson
- Ancient art and Ritual/ Jane Harrison
Proquest
- State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe/ Julia Adams
- Elites and Aristocracy in Colonial and Postcolonial Sri Lanka/ Jakob Rosel
- Beneath the Surface: A Discussion of Prominent Ideologies and Philosophical Influences on Anglo-American Business Ethics/ Hannah Jun
- The government in stormy times. Scenes of Athenian democracy and its relation to the crisis/ Claudia Marsico
- The Legacy of Henry Louis Mencken and Rose Wilder Lane: Democracy and Representative Government/ Roberta Adelaide