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London : UCL Press, 2018.
ISBN
9781787350267
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Margot Finn and Kate Smith
ONE The social life of things
1. Prize possession: the ‘silver coffer’ of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family
Sarah Longair and Cam Sharp Jones
2. Chinese wallpaper: from Canton to country house
Helen Clifford
3. Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house
Kate Smith
4. ‘A jaghire without a crime’: the East India Company and the Indian Ocean material world at Osterley, 1700–1800
Yuthika Sharma and Pauline Davies
TWO Objects, houses, homes and the construction of identities
5. Manly objects? Gendering armorial porcelain wares
Kate Smith
6. Fanny Parkes (1794–1875): female collecting and curiosity in India and Britain
Joanna Goldsworthy
7. Refashioning house, home and family: Montreal Park, Kent and Touch House, Stirlingshire
Margot Finn and Kate Smith
THREE The Home Counties: clusters and connections
8. Warfield Park, Berkshire: longing, belonging and the British country house
Kate Smith
9. Englefield House, Berkshire: processes, practices and the making of a Company house
Kate Smith
10. Swallowfield Park, Berkshire: from royalist bastion to empire home
Margot Finn
11. Valentines, the Raymonds and Company material culture
Georgina Green
12. Growing up in a Company town: the East India Company presence in South Hertfordshire
Chris Jeppesen
FOUR: On the borders: region, nation, globe
13. A fairy palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787–1873), Bengal Engineers
Diane James
14. Partly after the Chinese manner: ‘Chinese’ staircases in north-west Wales
Rachael Barnwell
15. The intimate trade of Alexander Hall: salmon and slaves in Scotland and Sumatra, c.1745–1765
Ellen Filor
16. Connecting Britain and India: General Patrick
Duff and Madeira
Alistair Mutch
FIVE Company families and identities: writing history today
17. The career of William Gamul Farmer (1746–1797) in India, 1763–1795
Penelope Farmer
18. The Melvill family and India
David Williams
19. The Indian seal of Sir Francis Sykes: a tale of two families
Sir John Sykes
Conclusion
Margot Finn and Kate Smith
PROJECT WEBSITE https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/home/
CONTENTS
Introduction
Margot Finn and Kate Smith
ONE The social life of things
1. Prize possession: the ‘silver coffer’ of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family
Sarah Longair and Cam Sharp Jones
2. Chinese wallpaper: from Canton to country house
Helen Clifford
3. Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house
Kate Smith
4. ‘A jaghire without a crime’: the East India Company and the Indian Ocean material world at Osterley, 1700–1800
Yuthika Sharma and Pauline Davies
TWO Objects, houses, homes and the construction of identities
5. Manly objects? Gendering armorial porcelain wares
Kate Smith
6. Fanny Parkes (1794–1875): female collecting and curiosity in India and Britain
Joanna Goldsworthy
7. Refashioning house, home and family: Montreal Park, Kent and Touch House, Stirlingshire
Margot Finn and Kate Smith
THREE The Home Counties: clusters and connections
8. Warfield Park, Berkshire: longing, belonging and the British country house
Kate Smith
9. Englefield House, Berkshire: processes, practices and the making of a Company house
Kate Smith
10. Swallowfield Park, Berkshire: from royalist bastion to empire home
Margot Finn
11. Valentines, the Raymonds and Company material culture
Georgina Green
12. Growing up in a Company town: the East India Company presence in South Hertfordshire
Chris Jeppesen
FOUR: On the borders: region, nation, globe
13. A fairy palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787–1873), Bengal Engineers
Diane James
14. Partly after the Chinese manner: ‘Chinese’ staircases in north-west Wales
Rachael Barnwell
15. The intimate trade of Alexander Hall: salmon and slaves in Scotland and Sumatra, c.1745–1765
Ellen Filor
16. Connecting Britain and India: General Patrick
Duff and Madeira
Alistair Mutch
FIVE Company families and identities: writing history today
17. The career of William Gamul Farmer (1746–1797) in India, 1763–1795
Penelope Farmer
18. The Melvill family and India
David Williams
19. The Indian seal of Sir Francis Sykes: a tale of two families
Sir John Sykes
Conclusion
Margot Finn and Kate Smith