'A MODERN-BUILT HOUSE ...fit for a Gentleman': elites, material culture and social strategy in Britain, 1680-1770
<p>A 1755 advert in the Gloucester Journal listed for sale, ‘A MODERN-BUILT HOUSE, with four rooms on a floor, fit for a gentleman’. In the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ‘gentlemen’s houses’ like the one described evolved as a cultural norm. This thesis offers a social and cultu...
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2011
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