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Country houses and the British empire, 1700-1930 / Stephanie Barczewski.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA7620 .B37 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barczewski, Stephanie L., author.
- Series:
- Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
- Studies in imperialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country homes--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Country homes.
- Country homes--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Architecture--Great Britain--History.
- Architecture.
- Country homes--Economic aspects.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 334 pages : illustrations, map, charts ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the US by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- This title assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Contents:
- Introduction : British country houses and empire, 1700-1930
- Colonial merchants
- Indian nabobs
- West Indian planters
- Military and naval officers and other categories of imperial estate purchasers
- The impact of imperial wealth on British landed estates
- The cultural display of empire in country houses
- The discourse of commodities
- The discourse of cosmopolitanism
- The discourse of conquest
- The discourse of collecting.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0719096227
- 9780719096228
- OCLC:
- 882530919
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