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Zusatztext The publication of Thompson's lectures under the title of Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture will be seen as perhaps the standard discussion on the subject ... The result is among the most intelligent and sensible series of historical essays to have been published in recent years, devoid of verbiage but animated by Thompson's wit and dry humour ... These outstanding essays represent a life-time's reflection on some of the key questions of twentieth-century British social history by one of it's great exponents, a man who has had a wholly beneficial influence on the discipline, both in an academic and personal sense. Britain's upper classes may well have changed so markedly that no gentleman therein remains, but one notes with satisfaction that at least one may still be found in British academic life. Klappentext In this book F. M. L. Thompson makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialism in Britain. He provides an expert analysis of the links between economic performance and the penetration of industrial wealth into landed society. Zusammenfassung In this book F. M. L. Thompson, with his typical blend of elegance and erudition, makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialism in Britain. Professor Thompson provides an expert analysis of the links between economic performance and the penetration of industrial wealth into landed society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Posing the Problem 2: Aristocrats as Entrepreneurs 3: Entrepreneurs as Aristocrats 4: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Culture of Entrepreneurs 5: Consumption, Culture, and the 'Unenterprising' Businessman 6: Gentlemanly Values, Education, and the Industrial Spirit 7: Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Cultural Explanations of Economic Performance
