David Cannadine Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. September 7, 1950
Birthday: September 7
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.
source: David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press
topic: Class, Mind, Degrees, Details Of Life, English Society
