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The British country house in the eighteenth century / Christopher Christie.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HT653.G7 C47 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christie, Christopher.
- Series:
- Studies in design and material culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Upper class--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Upper class.
- Country homes--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Country homes.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.
- Contents:
- The country house and money
- The architecture of the country house
- Role and rank: family and servants
- Landscapes, follies and villages / Pat Gardner
- A temple to the arts
- Furnishing the country house
- Entertainment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-326) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Ellis A. Wasson, Ph.D.
- ISBN:
- 0719047242
- 9780719047244
- 0719047250
- 9780719047251
- OCLC:
- 42445111
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