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Author Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022

Title Life in the English country house : a social and architectural history / Mark Girouard.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1978.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  301.44 G528L c.2  Check Shelf
Description 344 pages : illustrations 27 cm
Contents The power houses -- The mediaeval household -- The mediaeval house -- The Elizabethan and Jacobean house -- The formal house: 1630-1720 -- First interlude: virtuosos and dilettanti -- The social house: 1720-70 -- The arrival of informality: 1770-1930 -- Second interlude: early country-house technology -- The moral house: 1830-1900 -- The Indian summer: 1900-40.
Note Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Upper class -- Great Britain -- History.
Country homes -- Great Britain -- History.
Architecture and society -- Great Britain -- History.
ISBN 0300022735
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