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1 online resource (xxviii, 509 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
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. |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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East India Company. |
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East India Company London. |
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East India Company -- Influence.
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Interior decoration. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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History.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Smith, Kate, 1981- editor.
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Finn, Margot C., editor.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781787350274 |
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9781787350281 |
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1787350282 |
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9781787350298 |
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1787350290 |
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