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Title:

Slavery and the British country house / edited by Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann..

Publisher:

English Heritage,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xv, 180 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Slavery--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Slave trade--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Slave trade--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Gentry--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Country homes--Great Britain--History.
Art, British--18th century--Themes, motives.
Architecture--Great Britain--Themes, motives.

Other Authors:

Dresser, Madge.
Hann, Andrew.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Re:Interpretation : the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative mdeia / Rob Mitchell and Shawn Sobers . Slavey and West Country houses / Madge Dresser -- Rural retreats : Liverpool slave traders and their country houses / Jane Longmore -- Lodges, garden houses and villas : the urban periphery in the early modern Atlantic world / Roger H. Leech -- Slavery's heritage footprint : links between British country houses and St. Vincent plantations, 1814-34 / Simon D. Smith -- An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall / Nuala Zahedieh -- Property, powe and authority : the implicit and explicit slavery connections of Bolsover Castle and Brodsworth Hall in the 18th century / Sheryllynne Haggerty and Susanne Seymour -- Atlantic slavery and classical culture at Marble Hill and Northington Grange / Laurence Brown -- Slavery and the sublime : the Atlantic trade, landscape aesthetics and tourism / Victoria Perry -- West Indian echoes : Dodington House, the Codrington family and the Caribbean heitage / Natalie Zacek -- Contesting the political legacy of slavery in England's country houses : a case study of Kenwood House and Osborne House / Caroline Bressey -- Representing the East and West India links to the British country house : the London Borough of Bexley and the wider heritage picture / Cliff Pereira -- Re:Interpretation : the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative mdeia / Rob Mitchell and Shawn Sobers .

ISBN:

1848020643
9781848020641

OCLC:

(OCoLC)796755629

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)