European diplomatic services in the nineteenth-century have often been characterised as strongholds of the old nobility. This article challenges this hypothesis by proposing a quantitative approach to the representation of the noble class in the Belgian diplomatic corps between 1840 and 1940. It is argued that, in comparison to the situation in the major European countries at that time, the Belgian nobility did not constitute a dominant factor in the diplomatic service, although it was better represented in the higher echelons. Throughout the nineteenth century, the number of aristocrats in the diplomatic service surprisingly rose simultaneously with the democratisation of politics. This re-aristocratisation of the diplomatic career is attr...
Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th cen...
On the basis of governmental publications a mainly statistical analysis is given of changes in the F...
Verhandeling voorgelegd aan de faculteit van de rechtsgeleerdheid voor het verkrijgen van de graad v...
European diplomatic services in the nineteenth-century have often been characterised as strongholds ...
This study retraces the history of the ‘foreign service’ of the Netherlands between 1814 and 1946 in...
Aristocraten waren in het ‘burgerlijke Nederland’ tussen 1848 en 1914 belangrijker dan over het alge...
Recently the history of aristocrats in the modern world captured the attention of a steadily growing...
Recently the history of aristocrats in the modern world captured the attention of a steadily growing...
In earlier studies we found that the Dutch nobility continues to have a strong advantage in achievin...
In the county of Flanders, the later Middle Ages should not be considered simply as a period of gene...
Nobility in the Low Countries from Medieval Times to the Modern Era. The Creation of a Dynastic Nobi...
Nobility and processes of ennoblement in Late Mediaeval Flanders: a state of the art In the county o...
The following bachelor thesis deals with the rule of nobles in the foreign service of the Danube Mon...
A Republic of Comrades ? Selection of Ministers in Interwar Belgium (1918-1940). In the interwar pe...
A short introduction to historical elite studie in the Netherlands. How did the elite notables of th...
Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th cen...
On the basis of governmental publications a mainly statistical analysis is given of changes in the F...
Verhandeling voorgelegd aan de faculteit van de rechtsgeleerdheid voor het verkrijgen van de graad v...
European diplomatic services in the nineteenth-century have often been characterised as strongholds ...
This study retraces the history of the ‘foreign service’ of the Netherlands between 1814 and 1946 in...
Aristocraten waren in het ‘burgerlijke Nederland’ tussen 1848 en 1914 belangrijker dan over het alge...
Recently the history of aristocrats in the modern world captured the attention of a steadily growing...
Recently the history of aristocrats in the modern world captured the attention of a steadily growing...
In earlier studies we found that the Dutch nobility continues to have a strong advantage in achievin...
In the county of Flanders, the later Middle Ages should not be considered simply as a period of gene...
Nobility in the Low Countries from Medieval Times to the Modern Era. The Creation of a Dynastic Nobi...
Nobility and processes of ennoblement in Late Mediaeval Flanders: a state of the art In the county o...
The following bachelor thesis deals with the rule of nobles in the foreign service of the Danube Mon...
A Republic of Comrades ? Selection of Ministers in Interwar Belgium (1918-1940). In the interwar pe...
A short introduction to historical elite studie in the Netherlands. How did the elite notables of th...
Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th cen...
On the basis of governmental publications a mainly statistical analysis is given of changes in the F...
Verhandeling voorgelegd aan de faculteit van de rechtsgeleerdheid voor het verkrijgen van de graad v...