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Capital, culture and the country house in Britain and Ireland

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This volume explores the political and economic power and the socio-cultural influence of country houses in Britain and Ireland. It asks how these houses were — and continue to be financed — and locates them...
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  • 02 February 2027
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This volume argues that the country house remains central to debates over questions of sovereignty and nationhood, to issues of culture and class, and to how the imperial past is remembered in Britain and Ireland. This centrality requires an assessment of the country house and estate that is attuned to regional and national specificity, committed to studying the landed estate over the longue durée, and alert to the questions of social, environmental and economic justice that dominate recent work in the field. This volume intervenes decisively in historical, literary and curatorial scholarship on the country house and to set out the framework, approaches and research questions that should underpin new histories of the country house.
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Price: $150.00
Pages: 376
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Publication Date: 02 February 2027
ISBN: 9781526187918
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism and imperialism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, ARCHITECTURE / History / Romanticism, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Social and cultural history, Economic history, Architecture: palaces, stately homes and mansions, Museology and heritage studies, Capitalism
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Ruth Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Seventeenth-century Literature at Newcastle University
Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University

Introduction: Capital, culture and the country house in Britain and Ireland  — Ruth Connolly and Annie Tindley 
Part I: Capital 
1 The making of the English landowning class: From the Norman Conquest to overseas colonisation —Gurminder K. Bhambra 
2 Confiscation, colonialism, and the making of the eighteenth-century Irish country house — Patrick Walsh 
3 The Scottish country house: Capital, empire and elite loyalty, c. 1750–1920 — Annie Tindley
4 Cymraeg, culture and the country house: Landowners and language in nineteenth-century Wales  — Shaun Evans 
5 Country house ownership in the United Kingdom, 1925–2025: Typologies and trends  — Ben Cowell
6 The global plutocracy and the future of the U.K. country house — Joy Porter 
Part II: Culture  
7 The Wonders of the Peak: Chatsworth, Charles Cotton and the seventeenth-century country house poem  — Andrew McRae 
8 Criminal cases: the English detective story and the country house as/in genre — Stacy Gillis 
9 The Northern Irish country house in literature and history: the Clandeboye estate and Caroline Blackwood's Great Granny Webster — Ruth Connolly and Annie Tindley 
10 The country house and conjunctural analysis: Brideshead Re-Re-Re-Re-Revisited  — Roger Luckhurst 
Part III: Consumption and collections 
 11 Global goods in the Georgian country house: Materials, products and meanings  — Jon Stobart 
12 ‘Troops of elands gracefully galloping over our green sward’: Elite landowners, non-native animals and the British and Irish natural environments — Stephanie Barczewski 
13 Portraits of an Irish imperialist in Greece, Ireland and Jamaica: Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquis of Sligo and Governor-General of Jamaica, 1833–36 — Finola O’Kane Crimmins
14 Walking a fine line: A practitioner’s roundtable on legacies of colonialism, capital and the country house — Satinder Kaur, Sarah McLeod, Clara Woolford 
Afterword  — Alex Renton