An Eastern Tour At Home
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Author |
: Joel Cook |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 1889 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433081764932 |
ISBN-13 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Eastern Tour at Home by : Joel Cook
Author |
: Margot Finn |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 2018-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787350298 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787350290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by : Margot Finn
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 |
: Anne Trubek |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2011-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812205817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812205812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses by : Anne Trubek
There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Author |
: Brooke Giannetti |
Publisher |
: Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2016-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781423640479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1423640470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Patina Farm by : Brooke Giannetti
The husband and wife team behind Giannetti Home welcome readers into their gorgeous farm residence blending modern style with French antiques. When Brooke and Steve Giannetti decided to leave their suburban Santa Monica home to build a new life on a farm, they traveled to Belgium and France for design inspiration. In Patina Farm they share their collaborative process, as well as the enviable result of their team effort and creativity: an idyllic farm in California’s Ojai Valley. With two hundred gorgeous photographs and Steve’s architectural drawings, Brooke takes readers through their inspirations, thought process, and materials selections. Readers are given a full tour of the family home, guesthouse, lush gardens, and delightful animal quarters.
Author |
: Brent Byron Watson |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0773523723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780773523722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Far Eastern Tour by : Brent Byron Watson
What was it like to serve in the infantry during Canada's Forgotten War? In this text, Brent Watson tells the story of the Korean War from the perspective of Canadian soldiers. Dealing with the fiasco surrounding recruitment, a training regime inappropriate for the war they were to fight, and the stark living and combat conditions the soldiers faced, Watson examines the human consequences of an Army that was totally unprepared for service in the Far East.
Author |
: Enoch Pratt Free Library |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 1897 |
ISBN-10 |
: COLUMBIA:CU55873944 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Finding List by : Enoch Pratt Free Library
Author |
: Danielle Brown |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0996844309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780996844307 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis East of Flatbush, North of Love by : Danielle Brown
Author |
: Free Public Library of Jersey City |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 564 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433057516118 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Supplement No. 1 to the Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City. Oct. 1, 1891 by : Free Public Library of Jersey City
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 628 |
Release |
: 1865 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:AH6F23 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Home Missionary by :
No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 948 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433036428120 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hollywood Movie Novels by :