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

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'[Country Houses and the British Empire] is well written and researched, as well as properly documented. It is also laudable in its coverage of the entire British Isles, not just England.'
G. A. Bremner, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society

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Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/10/2014
      ISBN13: 9780719096228, 978-0719096228
      ISBN10: 719096227

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .

      Trade Review

      '[Country Houses and the British Empire] is well written and researched, as well as properly documented. It is also laudable in its coverage of the entire British Isles, not just England.'
      G. A. Bremner, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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