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Country houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930

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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. -- .

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Manchester University Press
1526106647 / 9781526106643
Paperback / softback
24/10/2016
United Kingdom
English
xviii, 334 pages : illustrations (black and white), map
24 cm
Reprint. Originally published: 2014.