East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Details:
- Author(s) Finn, Margot C, & Kate Smith (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 538pp; illus
- Publisher UCL Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Cultural assets collection & patronage
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
19 collected essays. 'Explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents'. Structured in five parts: 1] 'The social life of things'; 2] 'Objects, houses, homes and the construction of identities'; 3] 'The Home Counties - clusters and connections'; 4] 'On the borders - region, nation, globe'; 5] 'Company families and identities - writing history today'