Abstract

Introduction: British country houses and empire, 1700-1930 1. Colonial merchants 2. Indian nabobs 3. West Indian planters 4. Military and naval officers and other categories of imperial estate purchasers 5. The impact of imperial wealth on British landed estates 6. The cultural display of empire in country houses 7. The discourse of commodities 8. The discourse of cosmopolitanism 9. The discourse of conquest 10. The discourse of collecting Conclusion Appendices Select bibliography Index

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