The East India company at home, 1757-1857. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margot Finn, Kate Smith.
• Authors: Finn, Margot C; Smith, Kate, 1954-
• Contents: Introduction; Margot Finn and Kate Smith ; ; Section 1 The social life of things ; 1. Prize possession: the ‘silver coffer’ of Tipu Sultan andthe Fraser family; Sarah Longair and 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 andthe Indian Ocean material world at Osterley, 1700–1800; Yuthika Sharma and Pauline Davies ; ; Section 2 Objects, houses, homes and the constructionof identities ; 5. Manly objects? Gendering armorial porcelain wares; Kate Smith ; 6. Fanny Parkes (1794–1875): female collecting andcuriosity in India and Britain; Joanna Goldsworthy ; 7. Refashioning house, home and family: Montreal Park, Kent and Touch House, Stirlingshire; Margot Finn and Kate SmithSection ; ; 3 The Home Counties: clusters and connections ; 8. Warfield Park, Berkshire: longing, belonging andthe British country house; Kate Smith ; 9. Englefield House, Berkshire: processes, practices andthe making of a Company house; Kate Smith ; 10. Swallowfield Park, Berkshire: from royalist bastion toempire home; Margot Finn ; 11. Valentines, the Raymonds and Company material culture; Georgina Green ; 12. Growing up in a Company town: the East IndiaCompany presence in South Hertfordshire; Chris Jeppesen ; ; Section 4 On the borders: region, nation, globe ; 13. A fairy palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built byColonel Robert Smith (1787–1873), Bengal Engineers; Diane James ; 14. Partly after the Chinese manner: ‘Chinese’ staircasesin north-west Wales; Rachael Barnwell ; 15. The intimate trade of Alexander Hall: salmon andslaves in Scotland and Sumatra, c.1745–1765 Ellen Filor ; 16. Connecting Britain and India: General PatrickDuff and Madeira; Alistair Mutch ; ; 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 ; Conclusion ; Margot Finn and Kate Smith
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 747.094109033; Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787350267; 9781787350250
• Related ISBNs: 9781787350281; 9781787350298
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