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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: The Library of Economics and Liberty - Aristocracy. | Oct 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - The Aristocracy. | May 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences - Department of Sociology - The English landed Aristocracy and the Rise of Capitalism: Status Maximization and Economic Change (PDF). | Jan 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Washington Post - When Democracy Meets Aristocracy. | Nov 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UScholarWorks Journals - The Medieval Review - Crouch, The English Aristocracy. | Oct 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The intellectual aristocracy revisited. | Aug 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - How the aristocracy preserved their power. | Jun 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Princeton University - The Aristocracy. | Mar 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Michigan - The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert - Aristocracy. | Oct 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - An Isolated Aristocracy. | Jun 11, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Apr 19, 2023 | ||
| Article revised to clarify the place of aristocracy within Aristotle's classification of forms of government; cross-references to various articles added. | May 27, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Perseus Digital Library - Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander - The Definition of Aristocracy. | Nov 07, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Library of Economics and Liberty - Aristocracy. | Nov 07, 2016 | ||
| Deleted duplicate media. | Aug 31, 2016 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Aug 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - History - Aristocracy. | Sep 22, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Aristocracy. | Sep 22, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 30, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Jul 11, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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