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Who Were the Rich?

Vol. 5 1860-69
  • ISBN-13: 9781913087579
  • Publisher: EDWARD EVERETT ROOT
    Imprint: EDWARD EVERETT ROOT
  • By W D Rubinstein
  • Price: AUD $237.00
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  • Local release date: 01/05/2022
  • Format: Hardback 546 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Social & cultural history [HBTB]
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These international-acclaimed works comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of GBP100,000 or more in Britain from 1809 to 1914, when these sources begin in a usable form. GBP100,000 is the equivalent of about GBP10 million today. / Professor Rubinstein is the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries. / For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership.
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