East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
In the century between 1757 and 1857, The East India Company brought both sizeable affluence and fresh perspective back home to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. During this period, the Company shifted its activities and increasingly employed civil servants, army officers, surveyors, and doctors, many of whom returned to Britain with newly acquired wealth, tastes, and identities. This new volume moves beyond conventional academic narratives by drawing on wider research, exploring how the empire in Asia shaped British country houses, thus contributing to the ongoing conversation on imperial culture and its British legacies. 
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East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
In the century between 1757 and 1857, The East India Company brought both sizeable affluence and fresh perspective back home to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. During this period, the Company shifted its activities and increasingly employed civil servants, army officers, surveyors, and doctors, many of whom returned to Britain with newly acquired wealth, tastes, and identities. This new volume moves beyond conventional academic narratives by drawing on wider research, exploring how the empire in Asia shaped British country houses, thus contributing to the ongoing conversation on imperial culture and its British legacies. 
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East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

by Margot Finn, Kate Smith
East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

by Margot Finn, Kate Smith

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Overview

In the century between 1757 and 1857, The East India Company brought both sizeable affluence and fresh perspective back home to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. During this period, the Company shifted its activities and increasingly employed civil servants, army officers, surveyors, and doctors, many of whom returned to Britain with newly acquired wealth, tastes, and identities. This new volume moves beyond conventional academic narratives by drawing on wider research, exploring how the empire in Asia shaped British country houses, thus contributing to the ongoing conversation on imperial culture and its British legacies. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787350298
Publisher: U C L Press, Limited
Publication date: 04/15/2018
Edition description: 1
Pages: 500
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Margot Finn is professor of modern British history at UCL and president of the Royal Historical Society. Kate Smith is a senior lecturer in eighteenth-century history at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Figures and tables xii

Abbreviations xxii

Contributors xxiii

Introduction Margot Finn Kate Smith 1

Section 1 The social life of things

1 Prize possession: the 'silver coffer' of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family Sarah Longair Cam Sharp Jones 25

2 Chinese wallpaper: from Canton to country house Helen Clifford 39

3 Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house Kate Smith 68

4 'A jaghire without a crime': the East India Company and the Indian Ocean material world at Osterley, 1700-1800 Yuthika Sharma Pauline Davies 88

Section 2 Objects, houses, homes and the construction of identities

5 Manly objects? Gendering armorial porcelain wares Kate Smith 113

6 Fanny Parkes (1794-1875): female collecting and curiosity in India and Britain Joanna Goldsworthy 131

7 Refashioning house, home and family: Montreal Park, Kent and Touch House, Stirlingshire Margot Finn Kate Smith 153

Section 3 The Home Counties: clusters and connections

8 Warfield Park, Berkshire: longing, belonging and the British country house Kate Smith 175

9 Englefield House, Berkshire: processes, practices and the making of a Company house Kate Smith 191

10 Swallowfield Park, Berkshire: from royalist bastion to empire home Margot Finn 205

11 Valentines, the Raymonds and Company material culture Georgina Green 231

12 Growing up in a Company town: the East India Company presence in South Hertfordshire Chris Jeppesen 251

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 277

14 Partly after the Chinese manner: 'Chinese' staircases in north-west Wales Rachael Barnwell 298

15 The intimate trade of Alexander Hall: salmon and slaves in Scotland and Sumatra, c.1745-1765 Ellen Filor 318

16 Connecting Britain and India: General Patrick Duff and Madeira Alistair Mutch 333

Section 5 Company families and identities: writing history today

17 The career of William Gamul Farmer (1746-1797) in India, 1763-1795 Penelope Farmer 355

18 The Melvill family and India David Williams 389

19 The Indian seal of Sir Francis Sykes: a tale of two families Sir John Sykes 412

Conclusion Margot Finn Kate Smith 429

Notes 433

Bibliography 486

Index 505

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