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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462345903321

Autore

Jakubowska Longina

Titolo

Patrons of history [[electronic resource] ] : nobility, capital and political transitions in Poland / / Longina Jakubowska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2012

ISBN

1-317-08311-3

1-317-08310-5

1-280-67759-7

9786613654526

1-4094-4374-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/2209438

Soggetti

Gentry - Poland - History

Nobility - Poland - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 The Class that Would Not Perish; 2 Historical Capital; 4 Land Reform and the Dismantling of a Class; 5 On Trial: 1947-1956; 6 Noble Silence: Public Discourse, Private Lives; 7 The Endurance of Prestige; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on rich interview material spanning fifteen years, Patrons of History sheds light not only on communism as it existed and the stratification that persisted under such regimes, but also on the functioning of relationships of power and the ways in which privilege can be studied in the contemporary world. As such, this book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers and historians interested in cultural and social capital, inequality and resistance.