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SUMMARY:Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy\, 1660-1815 - 
 Sir Roderick Floud
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DESCRIPTION:The landscape garden has been said to be England’s greatest 
 contribution to European culture. Behind the hyperbole lies a century and 
 a half of garden making\, from the enormous formal gardens of the Restorat
 ion period and the time of William and Mary\, which were then swept away b
 y the landscape movement typified by Capability Brown and complemented fin
 ally by the more restrained designs of Humphry Repton and the picturesque 
 school. These gardens represent the expenditure of billions of pounds\, in
  modern values\, in what is arguably the most conspicuous example of all o
 f the luxury consumption of the period\, literally reshaping the English c
 ountryside. But who paid for them\, with what sources of funds\, what was 
 the nature of the industry which produced them and what was the impact on 
 the economy? This paper explores these questions and in particular the rol
 e of public expenditure as well as the technological innovations which wer
 e spawned. These are topics which have been entirely ignored by both econo
 mic and garden historians but which throw new light on the economics\, pol
 itics and social evolution of the long eighteenth century.
LOCATION:Room 12\, Faculty of History
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