The point of it all
Linda Colley, 1 September 1988
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
by V.G. Kiernan.
Oxford, 360 pp., £25, March 1988,0 19 822566 0 Show More
by V.G. Kiernan.
Oxford, 360 pp., £25, March 1988,
History, Classes and Nation-States: Selected Writings of Victor Kiernan
edited by Harvey Kaye.
Blackwell, 284 pp., £27.50, June 1988,0 7456 0424 2 Show More
edited by Harvey Kaye.
Blackwell, 284 pp., £27.50, June 1988,
“... perspective on the past has not led him to chronicle the mass of humankind, but rather what Harvey Kaye calls the ‘machinery of class domination’. In particular, he has explored the ideas and processes by which governing classes rule and are themselves regulated. Duelling, for him, represents ‘a burden imposed on itself by the élite as the ... ”