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The last country houses / Clive Aslet.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA7620 .A8 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aslet, Clive, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manors--England.
- Manors.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture, Edwardian.
- England.
- Architecture, Edwardian--England.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century--England.
- Architecture--England--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- The magnificent country houses built in Britain between 1890 and 1939 were the last monuments to a vanishing age. Many of these great mammoths of domestic architecture were unsuited to the changes in economic and social priorities that followed the two world wars, and rapidly became extinct. Those that survive, however, provide tangible evidence of the life and death of an extraordinarily prosperous age.The fascinating world, so vividly depicted in Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited, can now be viewed from a new perspective. The Last Country Houses will enlighten all those interested in glimpsing the lost life style of another age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300029047 :
- OCLC:
- 8533468
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