The fall and rise of the stately home

Resource Information

The work The fall and rise of the stately home represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The fall and rise of the stately home

Statement of responsibility

Peter Mandler

Creator

• Mandler, Peter

Subject

• Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Conservation and restoration | History
• Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History
• Art and society -- England -- History
• Country homes -- England -- Conservation and restoration | History
• Architecture and society -- England -- History
• Dwellings -- England -- Conservation and restoration | History
• Historic buildings -- England -- Conservation and restoration | History
• Manors -- England -- Conservation and restoration | History
• Tourist trade -- England -- History
• Cultural property -- Protection -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

How much do the English really care about this stately homes? In this path-breaking and wide-ranging account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries, Peter Mandler melds social, cultural, artistic and political perspectives and reveals much about the relationship of the nation to its past and its traditional ruling elite. Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and its aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing and modernizing society in which both popular and intellectual attitudes towards the aristocracy - and its stately homes - have veered from selective appreciation to outright hostility, and only recently to thoroughgoing admiration

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

LC call number

DA655

LC item number

.M26 1997

Nature of contents

bibliography