East India Company at Home 1757-1857 / / edited by Margot Finn and Kate Smith.

• TeilnehmendeR: Finn, Margot C.,; Smith, Kate, 1981-
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 509 pages)

In the century between 1757 and 1857, the East India Company brought both sizeable affluence and fresh perspective back home to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. During this period, the Company shifted its activities and increasingly employed civil servants, army officers, surveyors, and doctors, many of whom returned to Britain with newly acquired wealth, tastes, and identities. This book explored how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. This book moved beyond conventional academic narratives by drawing on wider research, exploring how the empire in Asia shaped British country houses, thus contributing to the ongoing conversation on imperial culture and its British legacies.

Table of Contents

1. Why Margaret Thatcher became Conservative Party leader and prime minister -- 2. The development of Thatcherism: intellectual origins and ideological framework -- 3. The key policies -- 4. Thatcher's management and domination of the parliamentary Conservative Party -- 5. The Thatcherization of the Conservative Party since 1990 -- 6. The contradictions and consequences of Thatcherism -- Concluding comments -- Chronology.