9780198226451, titled "An Open Elite?: England, 1540-1880" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: This book sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office.

9780192851499, titled "An Open Elite?: England, 1540-1880" | Abr rep edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1986), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Covering a period of three and a half centuries between two great upheavals in landed society--the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Agricultural Depression--this highly-acclaimed study examines the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to infiltration by families made newly rich through trade, office, or the professions.

9780198206071 | Clarendon Pr, July 5, 1984, cover price $56.00