Forget glossy period dramas, here is the real story of Britain's super-rich from the First World War to the end of the 'roaring' twenties.

Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country

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The country house was the focal point of Georgian architecture, landscape and society. This book explores the meaning of this distinct cultural form using a wid