The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0719047250
- ISBN-13
- 9780719047251
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 333
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Christopher Christie
Description
This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.
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