Introduction: British country houses and empire, 1700–1930
1. Colonial merchants
2. Indian nabobs
3. West Indian planters
4. Military and naval officers and other categories of imperial
estate purchasers
5. The impact of imperial wealth on British landed estates
6. The cultural display of empire in country houses
7. The discourse of commodities
8. The discourse of cosmopolitanism
9. The discourse of conquest
10. The discourse of collecting
Conclusion
Appendices
Select bibliography
Index
Stephanie Barczewski is Professor of Modern British History at Clemson University
'[Country Houses and the British Empire] is well written and
researched, as well as properly documented. It is also laudable in
its coverage of the entire British Isles, not just England.'
G. A. Bremner, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
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