Food & Material Culture

Food & Material Culture
Author: Mark McWilliams
Publisher: Oxford Symposium
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1909248401

Contains essays on food and material culture presented at the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

The Architecture of Baltimore

The Architecture of Baltimore
Author: Mary Ellen Hayward
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801878060

Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."

The conduct of Lord Bhatia

The conduct of Lord Bhatia
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Committee for Privileges and Conduct
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780108472718

The focus of this report is Lord Bhatia's use of the Members' Reimbursement Scheme between 1 October 2007 and 1 January 2009, regarding his designation of a flat in Reigate as his main residence whilst still owning and spending the majority of his time at a family home in Hampton. The Sub-committee on Lords' Conduct found that Lord Bhatia's interpretation of "main residence" was unreasonable and that he did not act in good faith in designating the Reigate property and in claiming for overnight subsistence and travel. Lord Bhatia appealed to the full Committee against the Sub-committee's findings and recommendations. The Committee upholds the findings of the Sub-committee, and recommends that he makes a personal statement of apology to the House and is then suspended from the House for one year or until she has repaid the sum of £27,446 wrongly claimed, whichever is the later.

Masters of the Big House

Masters of the Big House
Author: William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807131555

William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.