Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
“The” Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenæum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Are Clothes Modern?
Author: Bernard RudofskyPublisher: Chicago Paul Theobald
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Illustrated London News
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.
Architecture of the Picturesque in Canada
Author: Janet WrightPublisher: National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A History of the 'Old Water-colour' Society
Author: John Lewis RogetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Early Chests in Wood and Iron
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office. MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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