Stephanie Barczewski

Country houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781526106643
• ISBN-10: 1526106647
• Artikelnr.: 45392465

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Barczewski is Professor of Modern British History at Clemson University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: British country houses and empire, 1700-1930 1. Colonial
merchants 2. Indian nabobs 3. West Indian planters 4. Military and naval
officers and other categories of imperial estate purchasers 5. The impact
of imperial wealth on British landed estates 6. The cultural display of
empire in country houses 7. The discourse of commodities 8. The discourse
of cosmopolitanism 9. The discourse of conquest 10. The discourse of
collecting Conclusion Appendices Select bibliography Index