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Global goods - Indian textiles, Chinese porcelain - were central to the material culture of 18th-century country houses. They tied wealthy property owners in Europe, America and Asia into global systems of supply and the processes of empire. This book offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and culture of the time.

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Jon Stobart is Professor of Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores various aspects of retailing and consumption, mostly in eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. Recent work has focused on the country house as a site of consumption and on the ways in which it increasingly became a place of material and emotional comfort. This work has been published as Consumption and the Country House (2016) and Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022). He is currently researching the morality and materiality of consumption by Church of England clergy.

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