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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Author: Margot FinnPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
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 community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton
Author: Mrs. Russell BarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Art, Victorian
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Adroddiad Blynyddol
Author: National Library of WalesPublisher:
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Category : National libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Worthies, Families, and Celebrities of Barnsley and the District
Author: Joseph WilkinsonPublisher:
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Category : Barnsley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The House of Cromwell
Author: James WaylenPublisher:
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Category : Cromwell family
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Royal Mistresses and Bastards
Author: Anthony J. CampPublisher:
ISBN: 9780950330822
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Ampleforth Journal
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Category : Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion)
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Yankee Lawyer: the Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt
Author: Arthur TrainPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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American lawyer and writer of courtroom intrigues Arthur Train serves up the novel "Yankee Lawyer: the Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt". Tutt was the main character of numerous of Train's novels. The cunning and witty lawyer would be presented with a case so seemingly against his clients that it would at first seem impossible to win. And yet Tutt would somehow manage to get his client off the hook. Train describes him thus, "Not inaptly described as a combination of Robin Hood, Abraham Lincoln, Puck and Uncle Sam, he was beloved by a multitude of his fellow countrymen who knew him as a homespun but distinguished member of the bar, erudite and resourceful, a terror alike to judges and professional opponents, generous, warm of heart, intolerant of sham and of privilege, a doughty champion of the weak, with an impish humor which enabled him to laugh cases out of court and a fertility of invention that often turned what appeared almost certain defeat into victory. The reports of the celebrated trials in which he had taken part had been compiled into many volumes and were widely read. His ramshackly figure in his rusty frock coat and stove-pipe hat, the fringe of white hair overlapping his collar, his corrugated features with their long nose and jimber jaw, his faded but keen old eyes and quizzical glance were familiar in illustration and cartoon, while the antique flavor of his costume had long rendered him as conspicuous upon the streets of the metropolis as did Mark Twain's white Panama suit. Yet to us of his generation it was but the natural continuance of the regulation dress of every lawyer at the turn of the century; he was used to it and it merely did not occur to him to change..."
Addresses & hymns
Author: Emma Geraldine H.H. DeningPublisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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