The Gentleman s House in the British Atlantic World 1680 1780 Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2015

The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 23 June 2015

The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
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• Release Date : 11 March 2016

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 12 December 2023

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together

• Publisher : UCL Press
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• Release Date : 20 November 2023

Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century country houses. Across Europe, mahogany furniture, Chinese wallpapers and Indian textiles formed the backdrop to genteel practices of drinking sweetened

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 17 September 2021

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 02 January 2020

This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in the process of settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia. Their everyday actions contributed to

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 20 February 2020

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 20 September 2016

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 21 September 2021

Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations