Examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain.

This volume examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to 18th- and 19th-century Britain.

'The book sets out to prove that architecture, its production values and its histories are emblematic of contested social systems and cultural values. In the many-faceted themes it represents, it undoubtedly succeeds.' - Stephen Kite, Landscape Research