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9781852852528
"CREATING PARADISE adds to our knowledge of the English country house by considering it from the angle of economic history. Both serious and readable, it ranges from the great Whig palaces to the humble manor houses of country squires....This sensible book is full of insights and discoveries. Not only visitors to country houses, but anyone interested in English social and economic history, will find it revealing."Wilson, Richard is the author of 'Creating Paradise The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880' with ISBN 9781852852528 and ISBN 1852852526.
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