I'm with you on the elites bit. It strikes me as the kind of ambiguous blanket term that will leave some student 20-40 years from now reading a primary source f

I'm with you on the elites bit. It strikes me as the kind of ambiguous blanket term that will leave some student 20-40 years from now reading a primary source from this time period scratching their head, trying to understand exactly who the elites the author mentioned so many times were.