Slavery And The British Country House

Author : Madge Dresser,Andrew Hann
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848020643

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Slavery and the British Country House by Madge Dresser,Andrew Hann Pdf

The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.

Author : Stephanie Barczewski
Publisher : Studies in Imperialism
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1526106647

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Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930 by Stephanie Barczewski Pdf

This title assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Marika Sherwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857710130

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After Abolition by Marika Sherwood Pdf

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she describes how slavery remained very much a part of British investment, commerce and empire, especially in funding and supplying goods for the trade in slaves and in the use of slave-grown produce. The nancial world of the City in London also depended on slavery, which - directly and indirectly - provided employment for millions of people. "After Abolition" also examines some of the causes and repercussions of continued British involvement in slavery and describes many of the apparently respectable villains, as well as the heroes, connected with the trade - at all levels of society. It contains important revelations about a darker side of British history, previously unexplored, which will provoke real questions about Britain's perceptions of its past

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0618619070

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Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild Pdf

This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.

Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619491

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Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams Pdf

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191566271

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Slavery and the British Empire by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650, and covers the Atlantic world, especially North America and the West Indies, as well as the Cape Colony, Mauritius, and India. -;Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation. -;...a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade - Spartacus Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004469150

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Black Neo-Victoriana by Anonim Pdf

Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.

Author : Jon Stobart,Andrew Hann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848022336

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The Country House by Jon Stobart,Andrew Hann Pdf

In the post-Downton Abbey era, the country house has been the object of renewed interest, both scholarly and popular. The chapters in this book examine the country house in terms of its material culture, its presentation to the public, and its function as both a quotidian and a historic space, investigating in detail the consumption practices of the elite. By looking at the country house as lived space, the authors pose questions about the accumulation and arrangement of objects, the way in which rooms were used and experienced by both owners and visitors, and how this sense of "living history" can be presented meaningfully to the public.

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300263138

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The Story of the Country House by Clive Aslet Pdf

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain flourished and subsequently fell into decline before enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century. The genesis, style, and purpose of architectural masterpieces such as Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, and Chatsworth are explored, alongside the numerous country houses lost to war and economic decline. We also meet a cavalcade of characters, owners with all their dynastic obsessions and diverse sources of wealth, and architects such as Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Sir John Soane and A.W.N. Pugin, who dazzled or in some cases outraged their contemporaries. The Story of the Country House takes a fresh look at this enduringly popular building type, exploring why it continues to hold such fascination for us today.

Author : Deborah Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351793643

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Cultural Ideals of Home by Deborah Chambers Pdf

Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven, managed as an investment, and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public, state, commercial, popular and expert discourses about ‘home’: the heritage industry, design, exhibitions, television, social media, home mobilities and migration, smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography, the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original, historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; ‘media home’ imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of ‘homes of tomorrow’ and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study, this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies, cultural history, media and communication studies, as well as sociology, gender studies, cultural geography and design studies.

Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9781783275397

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The Country Houses of Shropshire by Gareth Williams Pdf

A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them.

Author : Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher : Canoe Press (IL)
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9768125136

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Sugar and Slavery by Richard B. Sheridan Pdf

This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands were Antigua, Barbados, St. Christopher, Dominica, and Cuba through Trinidad. Jamaica has been by far the major producer of sugar, but The Lesser Antilles had the advantage of a shorter sea trip to deliver produce and rum to the European Markets during the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Author : Don Jordan,Michael Walsh
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814742969

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White Cargo by Don Jordan,Michael Walsh Pdf

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide "breeders" for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OXFORD:N12749551

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Papers Presented to the House of Commons on the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade; &c. &c by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Barbadians
ISBN : 9766405859

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The First Black Slave Society by Hilary Beckles Pdf

Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.