The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home Author:Peter Mandler This pathbreaking account of England`s stately homes over the past two centuries reveals much about the relationship of the nation to its past and its aristocracy. Mandler melds social, cultural, artistic, and political perspectives to show how attitudes toward the great country houses have veered from selective appreciation to outright hostilit... more »y and only recently to thoroughgoing admiration.« less