The Decline and Fall of the British AristocracyBy: David Cannadine "A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change." The New York Times At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige,