# The Habit of Authority, Vol. 1

By **A P Thornton**

- ISBN-13: 9781032966939
- Publisher: Routledge
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 398
- Published: 20 Apr 2026
- Language: en
- Categories: History, World

## About this book

First published in 1966, The Habit of Authority looks at the continuity of paternalism and its attitudes in the face of the rising principle of democracy in Britain. It seeks to show how this continuity affected, as it still does, class and convention, polity and politics; and how power, when transferred from aristocra

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