East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 /
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the communit...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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London :
UCL Press,
[2018]
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| Σειρά: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Machine generated contents note: Section 1 The social life of things
- 1.Prize possession: the `silver coffer' of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family / Cam Sharp Jones
- 2.Chinese wallpaper: from Canton to country house / Helen Clifford
- 3.Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house / Kate Smith
- 4.`A jaghire without a crime': the East India Company and the Indian Ocean material world at Osterley, 1700
- 1800 / Pauline Davies
- Section 2 Objects, houses, homes and the construction of identities
- 5.Manly objects? Gendering armorial porcelain wares / Kate Smith
- 6.Fanny Parkes (1794
- 1875): female collecting and curiosity in India and Britain / Joanna Goldsworthy
- 7.Refashioning house, home and family: Montreal Park, Kent and Touch House, Stirlingshire / Kate Smith
- Section 3 The Home Counties: clusters and connections
- Note continued: 8.Warfield Park, Berkshire: longing, belonging and the British country house / Kate Smith
- 9.Englefield House, Berkshire: processes, practices and the making of a Company house / Kate Smith
- 10.Swallowfield Park, Berkshire: from royalist bastion to empire home / Margot Finn
- 11.Valentines, the Raymonds and Company material culture / Georgina Green
- 12.Growing up in a Company town: the East India Company presence in South Hertfordshire / Chris Jeppesen
- Section 4 On the borders: region, nation, globe
- 13.A fairy palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787-1873), Bengal Engineers / Diane James
- 14.Partly after the Chinese manner: `Chinese' staircases in north-west Wales / Rachael Barnwell
- 15.The intimate trade of Alexander Hall: salmon and slaves in Scotland and Sumatra, c. 1745
- 1765 / Ellen Filor
- 16.Connecting Britain and India: General Patrick Duff and Madeira / Alistair Mutch
- Note continued: Section 5 Company families and identities: writing history today
- 17.The career of William Gamul Farmer (1746
- 1797) in India, 1763
- 1795 / Penelope Farmer
- 18.The Melvill family and India / David Williams
- 19.The Indian seal of Sir Francis Sykes: a tale of two families / Sir John Sykes.