Stephanie Barczewski is Professor of Modern British History at Clemson University

Introduction: British country houses and empire, 1700-1930
1. Colonial merchants
2. Indian nabobs
3. West Indian planters
4. Military and naval officers and other categories of imperial estate purchasers
5. The impact of imperial wealth on British landed estates
6. The cultural display of empire in country houses
7. The discourse of commodities
8. The discourse of cosmopolitanism
9. The discourse of conquest
10. The discourse of collecting
Conclusion
Appendices
Select bibliography
Index

Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries