Author: William Coxe
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Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire
Author: William Coxe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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A Historical Tour Through Monmouthshire
Author: William Coxe
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Category : Gwent (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gwent (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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ISBN: 9780140710533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140710533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County
Author: John Britton
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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A Bittersweet Heritage
Author: Victoria Perry
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 178738926X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston’s statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain’s role in trans-Atlantic slavery, too often overlooked. Yet the legacy of that predatory economy reaches far beyond bronze memorials; it continues to shape the entire visual fabric of the country. Architect Victoria Perry explores the relationship between the wealth of slave-owning elites and the architecture and landscapes of Georgian Britain. She reveals how profits from Caribbean sugar plantations fed the opulence of stately homes and landscape gardens. Trade in slaves and slave-grown products also boosted the prosperity of ports like Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow, shifting cultural influence towards the Atlantic west. New artistic centres like Bath emerged, while investment in poor, remote areas of Wales, Cumbria and Scotland led to their ‘re-imagining’ as tourist destinations: Snowdonia, the Lakes and the Highlands. The patronage of absentee planters popularised British ideas of ‘natural scenery’—viewing mountains, rivers and rocks as landscape art—and then exported the concept of ‘sublime and picturesque’ landscapes across the Atlantic. A Bittersweet Heritage unearths the slavery-tainted history of Britain’s manors, ports, roads and countryside, and powerfully explains what this legacy means today.
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 178738926X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston’s statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain’s role in trans-Atlantic slavery, too often overlooked. Yet the legacy of that predatory economy reaches far beyond bronze memorials; it continues to shape the entire visual fabric of the country. Architect Victoria Perry explores the relationship between the wealth of slave-owning elites and the architecture and landscapes of Georgian Britain. She reveals how profits from Caribbean sugar plantations fed the opulence of stately homes and landscape gardens. Trade in slaves and slave-grown products also boosted the prosperity of ports like Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow, shifting cultural influence towards the Atlantic west. New artistic centres like Bath emerged, while investment in poor, remote areas of Wales, Cumbria and Scotland led to their ‘re-imagining’ as tourist destinations: Snowdonia, the Lakes and the Highlands. The patronage of absentee planters popularised British ideas of ‘natural scenery’—viewing mountains, rivers and rocks as landscape art—and then exported the concept of ‘sublime and picturesque’ landscapes across the Atlantic. A Bittersweet Heritage unearths the slavery-tainted history of Britain’s manors, ports, roads and countryside, and powerfully explains what this legacy means today.
The Family Topographer: The Oxford circuit: Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire. 1834
Author: Samuel Tymms
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature, Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the Year 1799
Author: Richard Gough
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature,
Author: Bodleian Library
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The remainder of the collection was sold in 1810.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The remainder of the collection was sold in 1810.
An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire
Author: William Coxe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monmouthshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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