Aristocrats (1983). Book of a popular television series on rich surviving families.

Michael Mann,

The Sources of Social Power (2 vols, 1986-93). Worldwide comparisons.

Barrington Moore, Jr,

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966). More worldwide comparisons.

Jonathan Powis,

Aristocracy (1984). Brief, elegant, and thoughtful pioneering synthesis. (2) قديم

M. T. W. Arnheim,

Aristocracy in Greek Society (1977).

The Fall of the Roman Republic (1988). Modern treatment of episodes that have haunted all aristocratic history.

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