The cultural display of empire in country houses

Barczewski, Stephanie

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“…Other investments came from ‘adventurers’ (who would now be called venture capitalists) like the 4th Earl of Bedford and his 12 associates draining the Fens from 1630 (Ash, 2017). Such projects were forms of internal appropriation and colonisation; later ones used capital from trans-global trading, including profit from shipping, plantation and slavery income from the Americas and looting from India (Barzewski, 2016; Sanghera, 2021). Other projects involved share issues by bodies like the directors of the Great Western Railway Company.…”

Section: The History Of Uk Floodplain Incursionsmentioning

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The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes

Lewin

O’Shea

2023

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Physically, river floodplains have both the subdued morphology of natural terrain created as extreme discharges and sediments pass through catchment drainage systems and, to an increasing extent, the forms that arise from purposeful human constructions. Together, these direct out-of-channel inundation. As defined here, ‘territories’ and their humanly constructed physical forms have historically consumed or modified naturally created ‘terrains’ in a collection of actions that we summarize as ‘morphophagia’. A more inclusive physical geography is presented, adding-in explanations for the evolutionary phasing of humanly-generated, but environmentally functioning, physical forms in the UK in the Modern Era (since c.1500 CE). Floodplain developments here took place in five main episodes of historically-contingent accumulation: the Early Modern (c.1500–1780 CE) started with a framework of purposeful owned land, and then followed periods that can be related to Kondratieff global economic phases (c.1790–1840,1840–1900,1900–1947,1947–2000 CE). Three different groups of forcings operated: (1) the compartmentalizing and patched infill patterns set by territorial units, rights and developer ownerships; (2) the availability, motivations and timings for capital and labour investment; and (3) the evolving technical possibilities exploited by entrepreneurs and agents. Epistemic frameworks for broadening the analysis of coupled terrain and territory systems, exploring actuating social forces as much as their symptomatic physical outcomes, are discussed. Globally, there have been different forcings, timings and emplacement layouts operating at scales from local river reaches to city expansion and economic regions. As perceptions of environmental stasis now disintegrate, enthusiasm for reinvigorating economic growth, with further population increase and sprawling construction may, as in the past, discount the hazards of floodplain occupation. When and why risky anthropo-physical floodplain emplacements occur needs greater systematic understanding as social and economic initiatives are being considered.

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Section: The History Of Uk Floodplain Incursionsmentioning

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The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes

Lewin

O’Shea

2023

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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“…One site bringing together these themes has been the English country house (Barczewski, 2014; Dresser and Hann, 2013; Finn and Smith, 2018). Disrupting their conventional depiction as quintessential sites of Englishness and Whiteness – consider the popular TV programme Downton Abbey as one recent example – these studies have shown how country houses were in fact built and furnished through imperial flows of capital and plunder, and not infrequently staffed with African and Indian servants.…”

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Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy

Richardson

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article brings feminist critiques of capitalism into conversation with race-conscious International Political Economy to highlight the place of social reproduction in the colonial global economy. It does so by taking a provincial perspective, using Royal Leamington Spa as a case study to reveal how the provision of care for the elderly and the ill sustained colonial elites across the life course, while religious and educational practices helped transmit cultural values across generations and reproduce imperialism as an institutionalised social order. Whereas the finance houses of London, the factories of Manchester, and the ports of Liverpool and Bristol constitute nodal points for imperial circuits of capital, the spa town condenses the everyday practices through which bourgeois metropolitan empire was lived and made liveable. These findings point to a functional differentiation of economic space within the metropole and offer a critical reinterpretation of Middle England as a Whitened site of middle-class respectability.

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The cultural display of empire in country houses

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The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes

The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes

Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy

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