Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930

Stephanie Barczewski author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:24th Oct '16

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Country houses and the British empire, 1700-1930 assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the empire upon the British metropolis by showing both the geographical variations and its different cultural manifestations. Barczewski offers a rare scholarly analysis of the history of country houses that goes beyond an architectural or biographical study, and recognises their importance as the physical embodiments of imperial wealth and reflectors of imperial cultural influences. In so doing, she restores them to their true place of centrality in British culture over the last three centuries, and provides fresh insights into the role of the Empire in the British metropolis.

'[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

ISBN: 9781526106643

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm

Weight: 544g

352 pages