FML Thompson Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980 (The Ford censures Delivered in The University of Oxford in Hilary boundary 1994.

FML Thompson Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980 (The Ford censures Delivered in The University of Oxford in Hilary boundary 1994.) New York: Oxford University Pres 2001 Pp ix, 200 $3995 ISBN 0-19-924330-1

"Merchants are commonly ambitious of becoming home gentleman," remarked Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations. A hundred later Richard Cobden spoke similarly in condemning his peer entrepreneurs: "Manufacturers and merchants as a regularity seem only to desire riches that they may be enabled to prostrate themselves at the feet of

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