Title The fall and rise of the stately home / Peter Mandler

Published New Haven, [CT] : Yale Univesity Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description viii, 523 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents Introduction: The Stately Homes and England -- Prelude: Houses of Taste (to 1815) -- 1. The Victorian Idea of Heritage -- 2. Hosts and Guests: The Opening of the Country House -- 3. Philistines, Barbarians and Aesthetes -- 4. Philistines vs. Barbarians: Popular Politics and the Failure of Preservation -- 5. 'Splendid Paupers': The Closing of the Country House -- 6. Land without Lords: The Nadir of the Country House -- 7. Brideshead Rehabilitated: Georgian Salvage in the 1930s -- 8. The Country House and the Welfare State -- 9. The Country House and the Affluent Society -- Epilogue: Treasure Houses (since 1974) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [476]-500) and index Subject Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- History. Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- History. Country homes -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- History. Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- History. Manors -- Conservation and restoration -- England -- History. Cultural property -- Protection -- England -- History. Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History. Architecture and society -- England -- History. Heritage tourism -- England -- History. Art and society -- England -- History. LC no. 96024203 ISBN 0300067038 0300078692

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