The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780
Stephen Hague2015
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The eighteenth-century Georgian mansion holds a special fascination in both Britain and America. Beginning in the late seventeenth century, small classical houses developed as a distinct architectural type. From small country estates to provincial towns and their outskirts, these ‘gentleman’s houses’ proliferated throughout the British Atlantic world. The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World analyses the evolution of these houses and owners to tell a story about incremental social change. It challenges accounts of the newly wealthy overspending on houses and material goods. Instead, The Gentleman’s House offers a new interpretation of social mobility characterized by measured growth and demonstrates that colonial Americans and provincial Britons made similar house building and furnishing choices.
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