East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 /

The 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 communit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Smith, Kate, 1981- (Editor ), Finn, Margot C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
East India Company.
East India Company > London
East India Company > Influence.
Interior decoration.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Interior decoration > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine 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
  • Note 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
  • Note 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.

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