Global Goods and the Country House Comparative perspectives, 1650-1800

• その他の著者: Stobart, Jon (編集者)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: London UCL Press 2023
• 主題: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Colonialism & imperialism; European history; eighteenth century;global trade;object-based learning;empires;trade routes
• オンライン･アクセス: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

要約

Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century country houses. Across Europe, mahogany furniture, Chinese wallpapers and Indian textiles formed the backdrop to genteel practices of drinking sweetened coffee, tea and chocolate from Chinese porcelain. They tied these houses and their wealthy owners into global systems of supply and the processes of colonialism and empire. Global Goods and the Country House builds on these narratives, and then challenges them by decentring our perspective. It offers a comparative framework that explores the definition, ownership and meaning of global goods outside the usual context of European imperial powers. What were global goods and what did they mean for wealthy landowners in places at the 'periphery' of Europe (Sweden and Wallachia), in the British colonies of North America and the Caribbean, or in the extra-colonial context (Japan or Rajasthan)? By addressing these questions, this volume offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and cultures that enmeshed the eighteenth-century world. And by placing these goods in their specific material context - from the English country house to the princely palaces of Rajasthan - we gain a better understanding of their use and meaning, and of their role in linking the global and the local.

物理的記述

1 electronic resource (480 p.)

ISBN

111.9781800083837
9781800083844
9781800083851
9781800083868
9781787350274
9781787350458

アクセス

Open Access