The gentleman's house in the British Atlantic world, 1680-1780 / Stephen Hague (Rowan University, USA)
"The eighteenth-century Georgian mansion holds a fascination in both Britain and America. Between the late seventeenth century and 1780, compact classical houses developed as a distinct architectural type. From small country estates to provincial towns and their outskirts, 'gentlemen'...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- The Gentleman's House in Context
- Building Status
- Situating Status
- Arranging Status
- Furnishing Status
- Enacting Status
- Social Strategies and Gentlemanly Networks.