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  The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 - Theodore Evergates - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books/p/pennpress?id=rTAiAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7

  Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors—the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family—were critical to shaping…

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  The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the ... - Michele Renee Salzman - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=iU4oG3zIdSQC&pg=PA95&dq=%22Aradius+Rufinus%22+maxentius&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=%22Aradius%20Ru

  What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Michele Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question. Focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men…

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  The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the ... - Michele Renee Salzman - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=iU4oG3zIdSQC&pg=PA95#v=onepage

  What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Michele Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question. Focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men…

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  Gentlemen Bankers - Susie J. Pak - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=lbpDH6likNAC&pg=PT266&dq=%22Speyer+%26+Co%22+1939

  Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and…

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  Gentlemen Bankers - Susie J. Pak - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=lbpDH6likNAC&pg=PT266&lpg=PT266&dq=New+York+Speyer+%26+Co+1939&source=bl&ots=7O9ijd9q1T&sig=4ZM

  Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and…

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  Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age - Eric Homberger - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=13jwkUPvYGcC&pg=PA174&dq=August+Belmont+Sch%C3%B6nberg&hl=de&sa=X&ei=-3HLU4aVGOrj4QTNvIDoAw&ved=

  Mrs. Astor, undisputed queen of New York society in the decades before the First World War, created a social aristocracy of unparalleled extravagance and exclusivity. This lively account of her life and the era over which she presided sheds new light on…

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  The county families of the United Kingdom - E. Walford - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=psgIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA399&dq=Laura+ALice+Horsford&hl=de&sa=X&ei=aUjzVP2kJcaiyAO56ID4DQ&ved=0CCAQ6AE

  The county families of the United Kingdom or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing a brief notice of the descent, birth, marriage, education, and appointments of each person, his heir apparent or…

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  Prussia in Transition: Society and Politics Under the Stein Reform Ministry ... - Marion Gray - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=P1cLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP1&dq=prussia+in+transition&as_brr=1&sig=5UmxNmdIricnhVtMfzPTpVR1dXo

  Contents: (I) The Stein Ministry in Historical Perspective: Hero History & Beyond; (II) Social Change & a New Ideology Confront Prussia¿s Old Regime; (III) Optimism Springs From Crisis: The Reform Party; (IV) Bureaucratic Change & Accommodation of the…

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  Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles from Down Under - James Morton, Susanna Lobez - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=E6-nBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT289

  In this first major survey of Australian con artists, the history ofæoffers that areætoo good to be true and the peopleæwho succeeded in making many believe otherwise is explored. This entertaining and shocking account delves into the world of scammers…

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  The Civilization of Ancient Crete - Ronald Frederick Willetts - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=b2Y1E4Qi8eoC&pg=PA136&dq=%22palace+style%22+knossos&hl=de&ei=rdSoTOr0EZSFswaD-vW8DA&sa=X&oi=book

  "Professor Willetts presents the first complete picture of the civilization of Ancient Crete - one which gives full weight to its origins as well as to its post-Minoan development. He shows the important influences from the neighbouring regions of…

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