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America's romance with the English garden
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ISBN: 0821444522 9780821444528 9780821420355 0821420356 Year: 2013 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy business


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Travel and the British country house : Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century
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ISBN: 1526110342 9781526110343 9781526110350 1526110350 9781526110329 1526110326 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Baltimore, Md. : Manchester University Press, Project MUSE,

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Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.

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Travel --- Country homes. --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. --- HOUSE & HOME --- ARCHITECTURE --- Country homes --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Architecture, Rural --- Rural architecture --- Dwellings --- Park gate lodges --- Social aspects. --- European influences. --- Design & Construction. --- Residential. --- Social aspects --- History --- Design and construction --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Architecture, Primitive --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Architecture. --- British consciousness. --- British country house. --- Consumption. --- Country house. --- European travellers. --- Frederick Hervey. --- Gardens. --- Grand Tour. --- Guidebooks. --- Hanbury's journals. --- Indian objects. --- Mary Mackenzie. --- Material culture. --- Scattergood's journals. --- Scotland. --- Taste. --- Travel journals. --- Travel. --- ancient Rome. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- elite travel. --- landscape gardens.

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