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Aristocracy
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ARISTOCRACY. That form of government in which the sovereign power is exercised by a small number of persons to the exclusion of the remainder of the people.
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Byline: Peter Grant WATCH IT Hitler's British Girl (Channel 4, 9pm) This remarkable film examines the life of a young British artistocratic woman so enamoured with Adolf Hitler that she killed herself when Britain declared war on Germany; a woman distantly related to Winston Churchill.
Tonight's TV by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Years ago, royal soldiers killed her father and she lost her artistocratic home.
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Shuger uses Irish tracts to argue that the "organizing polarity" of Tudor/ Stuart critiques of artistocratic warrior society was civility versus barbarism, and that the Irish were regarded as northern European barbarians.
"Hottentot": The Emergence of an Early Modern Racist Epithet by MERIANS, LINDA E. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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