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_cMdBmJHUP
245 0 4 _aEast India Company at Home, 1757-1857 /
_cedited by Margot Finn and Kate Smith.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bUCL Press,
_c[2018]
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2021
264 4 _c©[2018]
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (some color), color maps ;
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aMachine 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
505 0 _aNote 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
505 0 _aNote 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 8 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
610 2 7 _aEast India Company.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00537796
610 2 7 _aEast India Company
_gLondon
_2gnd
610 2 0 _aEast India Company
_xInfluence.
650 7 _aInterior decoration.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00976327
650 7 _aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00972484
650 0 _aInterior decoration
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
651 7 _aGreat Britain.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204623
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aSmith, Kate,
_d1981-
_eeditor.
700 1 _aFinn, Margot C.,
_eeditor.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/81934/
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