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The East India Company at home, 1757-1857 /
In the century between 1757 and 1857, the East India Company brought both sizeable affluence and fresh perspective back home to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. During this period, the Company shifted its activities and increasingly employed civil servants, army officers, surveyors, and doctors...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[London] :
UCL Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction; Nation and empire in country house histories; Global histories, local & national tastes; Object stories; Research communities; Conclusion; Section 1 The social life of things; 1 Prize possession: The 'silver coffer' of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family; The casket's origins in eighteenth-century India; Material culture from Seringapatam; The Fraser family and the casket: between Britain and India; The casket in the British Museum
- Conclusion: shifting meanings2 Chinese wallpaper: From Canton to country house; The evolution of Chinese wallpaper: the story from east and west; East India Company connections; Gifts and gifting; Concluding remarks: afterlife; Acknowledgments; 3 Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house; Production; Purchase; Dispossession; Recirculation; Conclusion; 4 'A jaghire without a crime': The East India Company and the Indian Ocean material world at Osterley, 1700-1800; Family commerce; Winds of trade
- The 'oriental' interiors at OsterleyConclusion; Section 2 Objects, houses, homes and the construction of identities; 5 Manly objects? Gendering armorial porcelain wares; Introduction; Women, porcelain and pleasure; The Basildon Park service; Acquisition; Designing the service; Using the service; Conclusion; 6 Fanny Parkes (1794-1875): Female collecting and curiosity in India and Britain; Who was Fanny Parkes?; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque; The 'Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan'; The cabinet of curiosities; Conclusion
- 7 Refashioning house, home and family: Montreal Park, Kent and Touch House, StirlingshireTouch House, empire and identity; The Amhersts and familial belonging; Conclusion; Section 3 The Home Counties: Clusters and connections; 8 Warfield Park, Berkshire: Longing, belonging and the British country house; A country house of one's own; Rebuilding Warfield together; A new generation; Conclusion; 9 Englefield House, Berkshire: Processes, practices and the making of a Company house; The East India Company arrives; The Wrightes return; Lady Margaret Clive at Englefield House
- The Benyon legacy (1789-1854)Conclusion; 10 Swallowfield Park, Berkshire: From royalist bastion to empire home; Swallowfield before the Russells; The Russells in India: Anglo-Indian tastes; Testing the English market; Swallowfield and its reformation; Hidden in plain view: Indian legacies; Conclusions; 11 Valentines, the Raymonds and Company material culture; Valentines Mansion's EIC owners and their material objects; The East India Company in Ilford; The Valentine: the EIC's ships at trade and war; Shipwrecks and the EIC's 'immaterial' material culture; Conclusion