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David Cannadine

David Cannadine was born in Birmingham, England, in 1950 and educated at Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton. He is the editor and author of many acclaimed books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, which won the Lionel Trilling Prize and the Governors' Award; Aspects of AristocracyG. M. TrevelyanThe Pleasures of the Past; History in Our Time; and Class in Britain. His most recent book is Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy. He has taught at Cambridge and Columbia Universities and has also served as director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He is currently Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University.  
Victorious Century
The Undivided Past
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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

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Victorious Century
The Undivided Past
Mellon
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

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