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Author : Dana Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951746158
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Georgian Group Journal 1995 written by Dana Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350460
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Author : Kate Retford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337319
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Georgian London Town House written by Kate Retford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.
Author : Margot Finn
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350274
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Author : Richard Hall
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846245237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman written by Richard Hall and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is everyday life that abounds in the diaries of Richard Hall, a sometimes pious Baptist haberdasher who kept shop at one end or other of the old London Bridge through much of the late 18th century. He recorded what he ate, what he purchased, how he slept and above all what the weather was like in obsessive detail.
Author : Adam Busiakiewicz
Publisher : Unicorn
ISBN 13 : 9781910787779
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Splendour! written by Adam Busiakiewicz and published by Unicorn. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition which celebrates 80 years of conservation work by the Georgian Group.The exhibition aims to transport the visitor into a world of craftsmanship, beautyand design. Gathering together an eclectic selection of traditional 'Georgian' craftspractised in the 21st century, objects range from silk wallpaper and chandeliers tocarved stone sculpture and ceiling designs. The works on display demonstrate thatthe Georgian tradition is a living tradition, and is one that should be supported andpreserved.Founded in 1937, the Georgian Group is a conservation organisation created tocampaign for the preservation of historic buildings and planned landscapes of the18th and early 19th centuries.
Author : Maia Barkaia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785336762
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Gender in Georgia written by Maia Barkaia and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women’s political agency in Georgia.
Author : Peter Lindfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271272
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Georgian Gothic written by Peter Lindfield and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136825363
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Literature of Georgia written by Donald Rayfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - from Greek and Persian to Russian and modern European literature, and the folklore of the Caucasus.
Author : Women's Farm and Garden Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Report and Journal written by Women's Farm and Garden Association and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Felus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730073
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden written by Kate Felus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.
Author : Fanny Kemble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Georgian Group Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendell Steavenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905712151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Georgian Spring written by Wendell Steavenson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-cop Winnie Farlowe has been retired from police work due to a back injury, and has been fighting the bottle instead of bad guys ever since. But suddenly he meets Tess Binder, a stunning, three-time divorcée from the Balboa Bay Club where wallets are fat, bikinis are skimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to a billionaire's bank account. She believes her father's suicide was actually a murder and wants Winnie to help her prove it. Death and chicanery flourish amidst ranches, mansions, and yachting parties. Publishers Weekly called it "comic and deeply moving . . . a stupendous climax . . . virtually sure to be hailed as Wambaugh's best." And the San Diego Union-Tribune said, "a profoundly serious work and in reading it I laughed my head off."
Author : Eric Lee
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786990954
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book The Experiment written by Eric Lee and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country’s experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters – among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orders of Stalin, it was able to offer, however briefly, a glimpse of a more humane alternative to the Soviet reality that was to come.
Author : Darra Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275918
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Georgian Feast written by Darra Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every Georgian dish is a poem."—Alexander Pushkin According to Georgian legend, God took a supper break while creating the world. He became so involved with his meal that he inadvertently tripped over the high peaks of the Caucasus, spilling his food onto the land below. The land blessed by Heaven's table scraps was Georgia. Nestled in the Caucasus mountain range between the Black and Caspian seas, the Republic of Georgia is as beautiful as it is bountiful. The unique geography of the land, which includes both alpine and subtropical zones, has created an enviable culinary tradition. In The Georgian Feast, Darra Goldstein explores the rich and robust culture of Georgia and offers a variety of tempting recipes. The book opens with a fifty-page description of the culture and food of Georgia. Next are over one hundred recipes, often accompanied by notes on the history of the dish. Holiday menus, a glossary of Georgian culinary terms, and an annotated bibliography round out the volume.
Author : Florian Mühlfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382976
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia written by Florian Mühlfried and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of identification with the state at its margins, as well as local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general.
