The British Country House in the Eighteenth CenturyThis work explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. It provides insight into many different areas: the role and rank of family and sevants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, scultpture, style, food and entertainment are all discussed and allow him to invoke a sense of 18th-century life as it was experienced by the inhabitants of these homes. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of the political significance of the country house in the Georgian period. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 12 |
Section 2 | 42 |
Section 3 | 47 |
Section 4 | 48 |
Section 5 | 52 |
Section 6 | 57 |
Section 7 | 67 |
Section 8 | 70 |
Section 14 | 167 |
Section 15 | 185 |
Section 16 | 190 |
Section 17 | 202 |
Section 18 | 204 |
Section 19 | 223 |
Section 20 | 240 |
Section 21 | 244 |
Section 9 | 84 |
Section 10 | 133 |
Section 11 | 135 |
Section 12 | 145 |
Section 13 | 149 |
Section 22 | 247 |
Section 23 | 251 |
Section 24 | 266 |
Section 25 | 284 |
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| Title | The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century Studies in design and material culture The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, Christopher Christie |
| Author | Christopher Christie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0719047250, 9780719047251 |
| Length | 333 pages |
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