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A Bittersweet Heritage

- Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape
Af: Victoria Perry Engelsk Hardback

A Bittersweet Heritage

- Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape
Af: Victoria Perry Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781787386969
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1787386961
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 4 aug 2022
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 241mm
Højde: 166mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 4 aug 2022
Forfatter(e): Victoria Perry
Forfatter(e) Victoria Perry

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9781787386969

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 241mm

Højde 166mm

Udg. Dato 4 aug 2022

Oplagsdato 4 aug 2022

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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