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Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Travel and the British country house
Author: Jon StobartPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526110350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Travel and the British country house explores the ways in which travel by owners, visitors and material objects shaped country houses during the long eighteenth century. It provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of this relationship, and how it varied according to the identity of the traveller and the geography of their journeys. The essays explore how travel on the Grand Tour, and further afield, formed an inspiration to build or remodel houses and gardens; the importance of country house visiting in shaping taste amongst British and European elites, and the practical aspects of travel, including the expenditure involved. Suitable for a scholarly audience, including postgraduate and undergraduate students, but also accessible to the general reader, Travel and the British country house offers a series of fascinating studies of the country house that serve to animate the country house with flows of people, goods and ideas.
The Enclosure of Knowledge
Author: James D. FisherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316517985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.
Touring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Jocelyn AndersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501334972
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. This book examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions. Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a phenomenon that demands investigation.
The Reader's Guide in Economic, Social and Political Science
Author: Richard Rogers BowkerPublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Author: British Library of Political and Economic SciencePublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Christopher ChristiePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047251
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.
History of the English Landed Interest: Modern period
Author: Russell Montague GarnierPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788 & 1789
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Pleasurable Instruction
Author: Charles L Jr BattenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520338359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England
Author: Edwin A. PrattPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England" by Edwin A. Pratt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.